Shell Scripting: Fish Shell, how to remove the welcome message

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I had this “problem”.

When I opened my shells, I had these 3 lines show up every time.

It’s a Fish Shell default.

I wanted to remove them.

Before

Here’s how I did it.

I opened ~/.config/fish/config.fish

code ~/.config/fish/config.fish

Where I had this content:

if status is-interactive
    # Commands to run in interactive sessions can go here
end
fish_add_path /opt/homebrew/opt/node@16/bin

And I added set fish_greeting "" at the bottom:

if status is-interactive
    # Commands to run in interactive sessions can go here
end
fish_add_path /opt/homebrew/opt/node@16/bin

set fish_greeting ""

Here’s my prompt now:

after

Lessons in this unit:

0:	Introduction
1:	Introduction to Shells
2:	Bash Basics
3:	Writing Shell Scripts
4:	Variables and Environment Variables
5:	Loops and Arrays
6:	Shell Script Functions
7:	Creating Aliases
8:	Tips and Tricks
9:	The Fish Shell
10:	Persist aliases and other configuration in Fish Shell
11:	How to add a path to Fish Shell
12:	Fish Shell, how to avoid recording commands to history
13:	▶︎ Fish Shell, how to remove the welcome message
14:	How to replace all filenames with space with underscore using a shell script
15:	How to update all npm packages in multiple projects that sit in subfolders