Re: fish PATH problem

[Alive4Ever <alive4ever at live dot com>]

On Wednesday, October 08, 2014 05:13:54 AM Andrew Schulman wrote:
> When I try to start fish directly from the Windows shell instead of from
> bash, I get a boatload of errors, like this:
> 
> ===
> /usr/share/fish/functions/type.fish (line 14):  if not getopt -T > /dev/null
>                                                               ^
> in function 'type',
>         called on standard input,
>         with parameter list '-p command-not-found'
> 
> in function '__fish_command_not_found_setup',
>         called on line 2 of file '/home/andrex/.config/fish/functions/fish_promp
> t.fish',
>         with parameter list 'cut'
> 
> in event handler: handler for generic event 'fish_command_not_found'
> 
> /usr/share/fish/functions/type.fish (line 26):          if not getopt $options $
> argv >/dev/null
>                                                                       ^
> in function 'type',
>         called on standard input,
>         with parameter list '-p command-not-found'
> 
> in function '__fish_command_not_found_setup',
>         called on line 2 of file '/home/andrex/.config/fish/functions/fish_promp
> t.fish',
>         with parameter list 'cut'
> 
> in event handler: handler for generic event 'fish_command_not_found'
> ===
> 
> and so on.  The problem seems to be that the PATH isn't set correctly.  PATH
> doesn't include /bin or /usr/bin:
> 
> ===
> andrex@ > echo $PATH
> fish: Unknown command '__fish_pwd'
> Standard input: echo $_ " "; __fish_pwd
>                              ^
> in command substitution
>         called on standard input,
> 
> /win/c/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Microsoft Online Services /wi
> n/c/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Microsoft Online Services
> /win/c/Windows/system32 /win/c/Windows /win/c/Windows/System32/Wbem /win/c/Windo
> ws/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0
> ===
> 
> If I edit /etc/fish/config.fish and add:
> 
> set PATH /bin /usr/bin $PATH
> 
> then fish starts normally.  Should something like this be added to
> /etc/fish/config.fish or /usr/share/fish/config.fish?
> 
> This matters because if I want to make fish my default shell, I need it to start on
> its own with a usable PATH set.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew.

I suggest you to read fish manual page, and find how to invoke fish as login 
shell. On bash and zsh, there is '-l' flag so that they behave with fresh 
environment variables.

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