I’m looking for inspiration for a custom Bash prompt[1]. I’d love to see yours! 😊 If possible, include both the prompt’s PS1
, and a screenshot/example of what it looks like.
References
- Type: Documentation. Title: “Bash Reference Manual”. Publisher: Gnu Project. Edition: 5.2. Published: 2022-09-19. Accessed: 2025-03-21T02:46Z. URI: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/index.html.
- §6.9 “Controlling the Prompt”. URI: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Controlling-the-Prompt.html.
Crossposts:
I like Liquid Prompt[1] (A useful adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh) Examples:
θ70° 2z termight@zone51:~ $ vi .bashrc
θ71° 2z termight@zone51:~/docker/invidious master(+34/-17)* ±
$
or#
, depending on whether I’m root.I’m using fish and the default is enough for anybody. 😁
I love it! You get git and virtual env integration for free :)
Fish is a really great shell for daily use. There’s so much built in, its scripting language is better (not portable though if someone else does not have fish).
By now, enough people have fish that you can basically assume those scripts being “portable”. Far better than nushell or xonsh - which are both pretty advanced shells but other tools lack support for them, e.g. Midnight Commander.
Mine’s pretty simple:
## .bashrc export BLA=$(tput setaf 0) # Black export RED=$(tput setaf 1) # Red export GRE=$(tput setaf 2) # Green export YEL=$(tput setaf 3) # Yellow export BLU=$(tput setaf 4) # Blue export MAG=$(tput setaf 5) # Magenta export CYA=$(tput setaf 6) # Cyan export WHI=$(tput setaf 7) # White export BOL=$(tput bold) # Bold export ITA=$(tput sitm) # Italic export UL=$(tput smul) # Underline export NC=$(tput sgr0) # No color & format _branch() { local branch=$(__git_ps1 "%s") if [[ -z $branch ]]; then printf "${BLA}null${NC}" else printf "${CYA}$branch" fi } PS1='.\[$(_pwd)\] \[$BLA\]〜 \[$MAG\]git\[$BLA\]:\[$(_branch)\] \n \[$NC$CYA\]\! \[$MAG\]\$ \[$NC\]' ## .inputrc set vi-ins-mode-string \1\e[34m\2.INS set vi-cmd-mode-string \1\e[33m\2.CMD
C:\>
/s
HA, that’s so cursed. I love it.
Do you have anything to check whether the current directory is under
/media/
or/mnt/
so that you can change the drive letter according to a deterministic assignment?/s
I use Starship
Starships looks very interesting! I’m going to check it out. Thanks!
Same. I guess, this is the Starship thread now. My config:
I adapted it from the Gruvbox Rainbow theme.
I can post my config, if anyone wants specifically that. (It does kind of assume a light background, though.)I like the timer and the error icon on a fail. I can’t recall how often I think: damn this is taking too long. I should’ve timed the command
I didn’t even know I needed to edit my prompt, but now I don’t know how I have lived with it for so long.
Prompt is pretty simple, mainly just adjusted coloring and added a timestamp.
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;36;01m\]\t \[\033[01;32m\]\u@\[\033[01;37;01m\]\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;36m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
Mine is simple (inspired by Kali Linux, if that’s even correct)
PS1='\[\033[0;32m\]┌──[\t] (\u@\h)-[\w]\n└─$ \[\033[0m\]'
I use zsh, but my old Bash prompt looks almost the same ash my Zsh prompt. Sorry, no screenshot, but here’s the code:
export PS1='\[\033[01;34m\][\[\033[01;37m\] \W\[\033[01;34m\]]\$\033[01;34m\] $(git branch 2>/dev/null | grep '^*' | colrm 1 2)\n\033[01;34m└─>\033[37m '
export PS1="\[\e[31m\][\[\e[m\]\[\e[38;5;172m\]\u\[\e[m\]@\[\e[38;5;153m\]\h\[\e[m\] \[\e[38;5;214m\]\W\[\e[m\]\[\e[31m\]]\[\e[m\]\\$ "
That’s a warcrime.
export PS1="\[\e]0;\u@\h:\w\a\]\[\e[1;34m\]\u@\h:\w\[\e[0m\]\$ "
I am a simple man.
Maybe you can find some inspiration here.
Mine shows the user and host, git commit and branch, docker context and directory, color coded based on status of git:
[root@server001|G:19e526e@(master)|D:myContext|currentDir] $
## PS1 adapted from https://gist.github.com/xenji/2292341 ps1_generator() { # docker context inspect --format '{{ .Name }}' Time12h="\T"; Time12a="\@"; ShortHost="\h"; Username="\u"; PathShort="\W"; PathFull="\w"; NewLine="\n"; Jobs="\j"; test -f ~/.config/git-prompt.sh || \ curl -L https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/contrib/compl etion/git-prompt.sh \ > ~/.config/git-prompt.sh source ~/.config/git-prompt.sh Color_Off="\[\033[0m\]"; IBlack="\[\033[0;90m\]"; BWhite="\[\03 3[1;37m\]"; BGreen="\[\033[1;32m\]"; BIRed="\[\033[1;91m\]"; BIWhite="\[\033[1;97m\]"; BIPurple="\[\ 033[1;95m\]"; BIBlue="\[\033[1;94m\]"; GIT_PS1='$(git branch &>/dev/null;\ if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then \ echo "$(echo `git status` | \grep "nothing to commit" > /dev/null 2>&1; \ DIRTY="$?"; \ HEADREV=`git log --pretty=%h -n 1`; \ echo -n "|G:'${BWhite}'$HEADREV"; \ if [ "$DIRTY" -eq "0" ]; then \ # @4 - Clean repository - nothing to commit echo "@'${BGreen}'"$(__git_ps1 "(%s)"); \ else \ # @5 - Changes to working tree echo "'${BIBlue}'@'${BIRed}'"$(__git_ps1 "{%s}"); \ fi)'${Color_Off}'"; \ else \ # @2 - Prompt when not in GIT repo echo ""; \ fi)' if docker context inspect >/dev/null 2>&1; then DOCKER_PS1='|D:'${BIBlue}'$(docker context inspect --format "{{ .Name }}")'${Color_Off} fi USER_PS1=${BIPurple}${Username}'@'${ShortHost}${Color_Off} PATH_PS1='|'${BWhite}${PathShort}${Color_Off} export PS1='['${USER_PS1}${GIT_PS1}${DOCKER_PS1}${PATH_PS1}'] $ ' } ps1_generator && unset -f ps1_generator
Are you dowloading and sourcing a file from the internet on your prompt? That sounds a bit scary!
Well, yeah, but it’s git: https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh
My thinking is that I trust git on my computer, so I trust downloading from their repo.
But you’re right. I should revisit this and see if it’s even necessary.