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I have downloaded fish shell on my centos, but when I switch command to /bin/fish

or even try to run xterm -e /bin/fish

I am getting following error: Standard input: echo $_ " "; __fish_pwd ^ in command substitution called on standard input, Standard input: __fish_pwd ^ in command substitution called on standard input, in command substitution called on standard input, Standard input: echo $_ " "; __fish_pwd ^ in command substitution called on standard input,

I also tried xterm -e 'tcsh -i -c fish' this too gave same error

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    How did you install fish? Commented Feb 16, 2015 at 7:23
  • since I do not have admin privileges, I have downloaded rpm and extracted it to a location from where i am accessing the fish executable. Commented Feb 16, 2015 at 17:00
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    @san Why are you running /bin/fish if that's not where you installed fish? Why are you running xterm -c … when xterm has no such option (it should be xterm -e fish)? And how exactly did you install fish (what file did you download, which command did you use to extract it, how did you configure fish to look for its files where you put them)? It looks like you did something wrong during the installation, but we can't tell you what if you don't tell us what you did. Commented Feb 16, 2015 at 21:21
  • Hi @Gilles , above I mistyped it as -c, I did actually used -e and I am passing the path where I have saved it in my user/docs folder, so I am passing the path like this xterm -e /usr/san/documents/bin/fish, even if the path was wrong I would not have got the above error. As I have already mentioned in my first comment why I cannot install using standard procedure I am passing this path to xterm's command argument which gives the above error. Commented Feb 17, 2015 at 5:52

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The issue here is that fish cannot find its function directory.

The rpm you downloaded has been built with a certain $fish_function_path, and those values aren't valid.

What you'd need to do is adjust those to where you actually placed the files - something like set fish_function_path ~/.config/fish/functions /etc/fish/functions /usr/san/documents/share/fish/functions.

(Also I think the error message has improved in newer fish versions)

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