HELP(1)

🌸 NAME: help(1) from fish-shell 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to help(1) — a fish-shell manual page, and the NAME line is literally help - display fish documentation. That's the whole assignment: it's the command that shows you fish docs. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

help [SECTION]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

help displays the fish help documentation. No cap.

If a SECTION is specified, the help for that command is shown. So like, you can ask for one specific thing and it's giving targeted docs. 🎯

• -h, --help — displays help about using this command. iconic self-awareness, honestly. 😭

If the BROWSER <#envvar-BROWSER> environment variable is set, it will be used to display the documentation. Otherwise, fish will search for a suitable browser. To use a different browser than as described above, you can set $fish_help_browser. This variable may be set as a list, where the first element is the browser command and the rest are browser options.

🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

help fg

help fg shows the documentation for the fg <> builtin. slay. ✨

💀 NOTES 💀

Most builtin commands, including this one, display their help in the terminal when given the --help option. lowkey useful, fr fr.

👑 Copyright 👑

fish-shell developers — okay legends. 💖

xoxo bestie — fish-shell version 4.9, dated Sep 08, 2026 🫶