starship

Cross-shell prompt. Replaces the bash PS1 with a fast, informative, customisable prompt. Written in Rust.

# initialise in ~/.bashrc:
eval "$(starship init bash)"

By default (context-aware — only shown when relevant):

• Current directory
• Git branch and status (staged/unstaged/ahead/behind)
• Language version (Python, Node, Rust, Go — detected from project files)
• Command duration (for commands over ~2 seconds)
• Exit code of last command (on failure)

Config: ~/.config/starship.toml

[character]
success_symbol = "[➜](bold green)"
error_symbol = "[➜](bold red)"
 
[git_branch]
symbol = " "
 
[directory]
truncation_length = 3

Full preset gallery: starship.rs/presets

curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh
# then add to ~/.bashrc:
eval "$(starship init bash)"

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