What do you think are the good features a bash prompt should have?

• hydro

  4 586 2.6 Shell

  Ultra-pure, lag-free prompt with async Git status—just for Fish

My prompt basically mimics Fish’s Hydro prompt. The left is a single line that has a truncated $PWD, my git branch, a single symbol for whether my git project dir is ‘dirty’, and a prompt symbol ($ in Bash, % in Zsh, # if I’m root). I use a transient right prompt in Zsh too with command execution times over 10s. Python venvs are the only other thing, but that happens automatically when I activate one. After using this for years, everything else now feels like clutter.

• homescripts

  7 17 9.7 Shell

  Useful shell scripts and dotfiles for Linux (by REALERvolker1)

My zsh prompt is simple. It has my pwd, my error code, number of jobs, if I have passwordless sudo, if I’m in vi-mode, and it is transient too so it takes up less space when I hit enter. https://github.com/REALERvolker1/homescripts/blob/main/.config/zsh/rc.d/40-prompt.zsh

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• dotfiles

  2 8 9.1 Vim Script

  My Linux configuration files (by bewuethr)

And because it's very instructive, I hand-rolled all the rest as well, resulting in this (set via PROMPT_COMMAND).

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