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How do you "source" a file in fish?

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Mar 15, 202620900 views

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I'd like to use keychain with the fish shell, but I'm not sure how to get fish to load the ~/.keychain/hostname-fish file to set the appropriate environment variables. In bash, there's the "source" command, but it doesn't exist in fish.

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Below is what I have in for your specific example. The source command is , which also works in bash. Prior to fish 2.1.0, the command was called .

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