Shell Scripting: How to add a path to Fish Shell

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I was looking for a fast way to add a path to my Fish Shell, so I could execute commands into that folder.

Here’s how to do that in Fish Shell:

fish_add_path "/Users/flavio/bin"

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