Installing Homebrew with fish-shell

Question

I recently had a mishap with MySQL and when I uninstalled it from System Preferences it uninstalled Homebrew as well (I checked the erase all files that are related to MySQL, which was probably not the right thing to do).

Anyways, I got everything back to normal but when I try to install Homebrew using the install script on their website:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

I get this error:

fish: $(...) is not supported. In fish, please use '(curl)'.
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

I tried complying with this error by eliminating the '$' and running:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" 

I then get this error:

-e:1: syntax error, unexpected tLABEL, expecting keyword_do or '{' or '('
(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/H...
                  ^
-e:1: unknown regexp options - raw

This is where I am stuck. I've tried to change my shell but fish is the only one listed in my shell files.

Answer 1

Your second example just begins with (curl.... Which doesn't make any sense. Typo? This should work:

/usr/bin/ruby -e (curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)

Also, you could also just run curl and save the script to a file (e.g., homebrew.rb) then tell ruby to execute that script: ruby homebrew.rb.