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Share your Bash prompts! (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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.

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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.

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[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Azzk1kr@feddit.nl 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Am I a loser if I stick to POSIX?

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

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