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mickkk
Asked: 2018-02-19 12:17:58 +0800 CST

How to run installed oh my fish plugins?

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I've successfully installed on my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS fish shell and oh my fish. One of the main appeals of this shell, for me, is the set of optional plugins.

I succesfully managed to install some plugins such as hash and extract using

omf install extract
omf install hash

however, when I run 

hash -q md5 "Hello world"

in the console I get no output at all (instead of the expected md5 hash of the string)

when I run

extract file.tar.gz

I get

The program 'extract' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt install extract

which is not at all what I was expecting.

How can I make the plugins work? So far I've understood that I can put some fish shell scripts in the folder ~/.config/fish/functions and they will run. I can probably fix this by putting the code of the plugins in this folder but I'd like to know which is the official way of making the plugins work.

configuration command-line plugins fish

1 Answers

  1. This is not a permanent (neither a "clean" one, I think).

    It is indeed possible to make the plugins work by putting the function.fish script into the ~/.config/fish/functions folder. This is a raw fix which I don't necessarily like but it works.

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