Share your Bash prompts!

[goun@lemmy.ml]

Are you dowloading and sourcing a file from the internet on your prompt? That sounds a bit scary!

[z3ror0ne@lemmy.ml]

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 '

[nore@sh.itjust.works]

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

[mbirth@lemmy.ml]

I’m using fish and the default is enough for anybody.

[fluckx@lemmy.world]

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

[winety@lemmy.zip]

Mine's really simple; I just make the path bold and yellow:

What I like to do is change the colour depending on the machine I ssh into, e.g. make the path red on my Raspberry Pi.

[azzk1kr@feddit.nl]

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).

[mbirth@lemmy.ml]

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.

[mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com]

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.

[mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com]

Starships looks very interesting! I'm going to check it out. Thanks!

[crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz]

I love it! You get git and virtual env integration for free

[djehuti@programming.dev]

$ or # , depending on whether I'm root.

[termight@lemmy.ml]

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)* ±

[1] https://github.com/liquidprompt/liquidprompt

[plutoniumacid@lemmy.world]

I recently started with fish and dislike that I can't drop bash commands into it because it parses differently. That is enough to annoy me to uninstall.

[plutoniumacid@lemmy.world]

How so? What does this do?

[billwashere@lemmy.world]

Yeah I’m gonna check this out at work next week for sure.

[teawrecks@sopuli.xyz]

Is this running in your rc (i.e. every single time you open a terminal)? Even if it's safe, I'd be annoyed by any delay.

[asparagus0098@sh.itjust.works]

My bash prompt is just me copying the prompt I have set on fish.

# Prompt
green=$'\e[38;5;2m'
bright_red=$'\e[38;5;9m'
bright_green=$'\e[38;5;10m'
reset=$'\e[0m'

prompt_command()
{
    local exit_status=$?

    if [[ $exit_status != 0 ]]; then
        exit_color=$bright_red
        exit_prompt=" [$exit_status]"
    else
        exit_color=$bright_green
        exit_prompt=""
    fi
}

PROMPT_COMMAND=prompt_command
PS1='\[$green\]\w\[$exit_color\]$exit_prompt\n❯ \[$reset\]'

I have a small issue with this prompt though. Sometimes the ❯ ends up turning white for some reason.

[tankplanker@lemmy.world]

Another starship user. Mostly want it to summarise useful stuff for folders pulled from git or whatever so it's pretty plain rest of the time. I use the same on all my boxes

[mbirth@lemmy.ml]

You shouldn’t just “drop bash commands into it” anyways. And if you really need it, bash is only one bash away.