A shell prompt with an attitude: enhanced (BASH) shell prompt with VCS (Git) branch and status information.
Sha-dazzle up or Sha-dazzle down your prompt, dynamically!
Add color, Git status, shell-level, Python environment info, etc., as needed and when needed.
Source the file promptitude.sh in your ~/.bashrc and execute the promptitude function with appropriate arguments.
- Clone this repository somewhere fairly stable on your system.
$ mkdir -p ~/.local/opt
$ cd ~/.local/opt
$ git clone https://github.com/jeetsukumaran/promptitude.git
- Edit your
~/.bashrcfile and add the following lines at the end of the file:
source ~/.local/opt/promptitude/promptitude.sh
export PROMPTITUDE_DEFAULT_COMMAND="
--prompt-color turquoise \
--no-user-host
--user-host-color black:grey \
--venv-color black:cyan \
--dir-color turquoise \
--branch-color boldgreen \
--head-color grey \
--status-color boldlightred"
promptitude
- And that's it. You should have an awesome prompt with attitude for all your subsequent shell sessions. You can pass the
promptitudecommand alternative arguments/options to customize the prompt, as per the options below.
promptitude [OPTIONS]
Configure BASH prompt
Information Options:
--no-prefix-newline ... do not add a newline before prompt
--prefix-newline ... add a newline before prompt
--no-postfix-newline ... do not add a newline after prompt
--postfix-newline ... add a newline after prompt
--no-shell-level ... do not show shell nesting level
--show-shell-level ... show shell nesting level
--no-user-host ... do not show user and hostname
--show-user-host ... show user and hostname
--no-dir ... do not show current directory
--show-short-dir ... show current directory (short path)
--show-long-dir ... show current directory (full path)
--no-venv ... do not show Python virtual environment status
--show-short-venv ... show path to Python virtual environment (short path)
--show-long-venv ... show path to Python virtual environment (long path)
--no-git ... do not show git branch, head and status
--show-git ... show git branch, head and status
--none ... minimal prompt (no info)
Color Options (see '--help-colors' for how to specify colors):
--prompt-color <COLOR> ... base prompt color
--user-host-color <COLOR> ... user and hostname color
--dir-color <COLOR> ... directory color
--venv-color <COLOR> ... Python virtual environment color
--branch-color <COLOR> ... branch name color
--head-color <COLOR> ... current revision/commit ID color
--status-color <COLOR> ... repository status color
--help-colors ... more help on color specification
(Note that the colors are not shown in this document; but like that extra-cheese on your online pizza order, it is going to be there when it shows up at your door!)
$ promptitude --no-user-host \
--prompt-color cyan \
--user-host-color black:cyan \
--venv-color black:green \
--dir-color cyan \
--branch-color green \
--head-color gray \
--status-color red \
[Syrupy:master:911f6d8]$ promptitude --no-git
[Syrupy]$ promptitude --show-git
[Syrupy:master:911f6d8]$ promptitude --show-long-dir --show-user-host --postfix-newline
[jeet@mongoose:/Users/jeet/Documents/Projects/Utilities/Syrupy:master:911f6d8]
$
Default command-line options can be set using the environmental variable $PROMPTITUDE_DEFAULT_COMMAND.
For example, the following line your "~/.bashrc":
export PROMPTITUDE_DEFAULT_COMMAND="--no-user-host --prompt-color cyan --user-host-color black:cyan --venv-color black:green --dir-color cyan --branch-color green --head-color gray --status-color red"
will pass the listed options to the promptitude command the next time it is invoked.