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Installs Fish Shell without root access
#!/bin/bash
# Script for installing Fish Shell on systems without root access.
# Fish Shell will be installed in $HOME/local/bin.
# It's assumed that wget and a C/C++ compiler are installed.
# exit on error
set -e
FISH_SHELL_VERSION=2.1.1
# create our directories
mkdir -p $HOME/local $HOME/fish_shell_tmp
cd $HOME/fish_shell_tmp
# download source files for Fish Shell
wget http://fishshell.com/files/${FISH_SHELL_VERSION}/fish-${FISH_SHELL_VERSION}.tar.gz
# extract files, configure, and compile
tar xvzf fish-${FISH_SHELL_VERSION}.tar.gz
cd fish-${FISH_SHELL_VERSION}
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --disable-shared
make
make install
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