EXT: For the servers I own and manage, I'd chsh to Fish. That alone eased the whole sysadmin thing a lot. But today, configuring a new server, I'm trying out a new approach: Don't chsh, but always SHELL=/usr/bin/fish tmux whenever I do stuff manually via SSH. I'm expecting two advantages: Scripts that expect Bash will have less chance of breakage, and it will remind me to never start anything outside of Tmux. So far this seems to be working.

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

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10/10/2025, 12:17:55 AM

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For the servers I own and manage, I'd chsh to Fish. That alone eased the whole sysadmin thing a lot.

But today, configuring a new server, I'm trying out a new approach: Don't chsh, but always SHELL=/usr/bin/fish tmux whenever I do stuff manually via SSH.

I'm expecting two advantages: Scripts that expect Bash will have less chance of breakage, and it will remind me to never start anything outside of Tmux.

So far this seems to be working.

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