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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  • KissakiEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I’m usually not using bash locally, and remotely don’t change the prompt, but Starship works in bash too.

    I use Nushell with Starship (cross platform prompt) in Windows Terminal.

    ~
nu ❯                                  took 52ms

    Path above prompt, prompt with shell name and a character, and on the right side how long the previous command took. The Character changes color from green to red when the last command exited with a non-0/-success exit code.

    In a git repo folder it shows git info too - the branch symbol won’t show here because here is not a nerd font with symbols; I’ll add a screenshot:

    C:\dev\dotnet\meercat-monitor on  main [?]
nu ❯                                                                took 1ms

    Starship can show a bunch of status/state information for various tools, package managers, docker, etc.

    I wouldn’t show my PROMPT_COMMAND, but it’s a nu closure so not really comparable to bash. But as I said, Starship works with Bash too.