Suppress or Customize Intro Message in Fish Shell

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Kevin Sylvestre picture Kevin Sylvestre · Dec 21, 2012 · Viewed 69.3k times · Source

Is it possible to remove the intro message in fish shell:

Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell

Type help for instructions on how to use fish

Answer

Kevin Sylvestre picture Kevin Sylvestre · Dec 21, 2012

Found that the greeting message is set in fishd.Machine.local. To override the following to ~/.config/fish/config.fish:

set fish_greeting

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