That said, I wouldn't speak of "bash compatibility" just because another symbol/ operator from bash can now be used in fish (this happens sometimes), but this isn't for compatibility but rather so that you don't need to learn the fish equivalent. Fish has a different syntax from bash (e.g. command substitution doesn't use $, no do in for loops...) so they'll never be compatible. There are bash compatible shells out there (I guess zsh, dash and probably oil?), but fish isn't and doesn't try to be.

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

this is my first time hearing of fish and that phrase confused me. its badly worded. i am not a fan of bash so i am excited to try this out.

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