https://mkz.me/til/shell/ Recent content in Shell on mkz.me Hugo en-us Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:26:59 +0200 https://mkz.me/til/shell/vscode-remote-ssh-with-fish/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:26:59 +0200 https://mkz.me/til/shell/vscode-remote-ssh-with-fish/ <p><a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VS Code remote SSH</a> would not connect to a machine where my login shell was <code>fish</code>. It installs and starts its server side by running a POSIX shell script over the SSH connection, and fish does not run those.</p> <p>The fix is to keep a POSIX shell as the <em>login</em> shell and hand over to fish only for interactive sessions. Change the login shell back:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-sh" data-lang="sh"><span class="line"><span class="cl">$ chsh -s /bin/bash </span></span></code></pre></div><p>then, in <code>~/.bashrc</code>:</p>