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Fish Shell, how to remove the welcome message

Published Dec 27 2022

I had this “problem”.

When I opened my shells, I had these 3 lines show up every time.

It’s a Fish Shell default.

I wanted to remove them.

Here’s how I did it.

I opened ~/.config/fish/config.fish

code ~/.config/fish/config.fish

Where I had this content:

if status is-interactive
    # Commands to run in interactive sessions can go here
end
fish_add_path /opt/homebrew/opt/node@16/bin

And I added set fish_greeting "" at the bottom:

if status is-interactive
    # Commands to run in interactive sessions can go here
end
fish_add_path /opt/homebrew/opt/node@16/bin

set fish_greeting ""

Here’s my prompt now: