The fish package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution. This release has
a few Cygwin-only improvements:
* sudo function: Alias for 'cygstart --action=runas', which runs a command as
Administrator after prompting for approval by UAC. This is the Cygwin analog of
sudo in Linux. For example,
sudo net start sshd
A new window opens to run the command, then closes itself again, so you probably
won't have time to read any output. You may like it better to open a root shell
with 'sudo fish' or 'sudo mintty', then run your commands there.
* iamroot function: True if the shell is running with Administrator rights, else
false. For example,
iamroot; and echo yes; or echo no
* fish_prompt function now correctly adjusts the prompt if fish is running with
Administrator rights.
fish is the friendly interactive shell. It's a Unix shell that focuses on
interactive use, discoverability, and user friendliness. The design goal of fish
is to give the user a rich set of powerful features in a way that is easy to
discover, remember, and use.
Home page: http://fishshell.com
Andrew E. Schulman
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To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your
system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.
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