Loading module in fish shell prints commands to stdout about modules HOT 2 CLOSED

Hello Helmut,

What you observe is the expected behavior of modulecmd command.

Modules tool is based on two components:

• a modulecmd script that evaluates modulefiles and output their environment change settings on stdout
• a module shell function that takes modulecmd output and evaluates it in the current shell session to update it

So you need to use the module shell function from your shell session, not the modulecmd script.

There is a fish initialization script provided with Modules that defines the module shell function. Given the information you provided, you should find this script at /cm/local/apps/environment-modules/4.5.3/init/fish.

$ source /cm/local/apps/environment-modules/4.5.3/init/fish

Regards,
Xavier

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Hello Xavier,

Thank you for clearing that up. For some reason my fish shell had been set to automatically expand 'module' into 'modulecmd fish', so I assumed modulecmd was what I should be using.

Warmly,
Helmut

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