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
  1. 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.

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  • Mike Wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.comEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    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