Useful Shell Prompt (2020)

• starship

  301 41,400 9.7 Rust

  ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

  

https://starship.rs/

It's very feature-rich, showing suitable context for a variety of tools, and can be customised if the defaults don't provide the information you're after.

• powerlevel10k

  294 43,638 8.7 Shell

  A Zsh theme

If you're running zsh, I suggest using powerlevel10k[0]. It is stupid fast, and extremely customisable.

[0] https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• pure

  17 12,868 4.5 Shell

  Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt (by sindresorhus)

I've been using pure theme for a few years and absolutely love it. It shows me everything I need, but doesn't feel cluttered.

It uses 2 lines, which is actually really nice. It gives space to show where you are and git status/branch, while still allowing you to write long commands.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure

• dotfiles

  1 0 2.6 Python

  My dotfiles. (by thanatos)

https://github.com/thanatos/dotfiles/blob/master/shell/zsh/p...

I've tried to highlight roughly the relevant bits.

The basics of it is that we lazy-load an associative array between exit statuses that are signals and their prettified names. (Which we more or less build by querying Python, to get at what's, essentially, defined in signal.h.)

Once we have that assoc. array, when we get a non-zero exit, we see if it's in the array. If it is, look up the pretty name, print message. If not, just print message with raw exit status. Red & bold so it shows up. (Should probably also use bright red, too. But my work laptop is macOS, & so it's iTerm2, and iTerm2 interprets "bold" to mean "bright & bold".)

I also use zsh, which is able to be considerably more expressive in what it can accomplish in a PS1 than bash can. Note that the syntax,

  ${+VAR}

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