Starship: The minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

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Starship: The minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell
  • Add the init script to your shell's config file:

    Bash

    Add the following to the end of ~/.bashrc:sh

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

    Fish

    Add the following to the end of ~/.config/fish/config.fish:sh

    # ~/.config/fish/config.fish
    
    starship init fish | source

    Zsh

    Add the following to the end of ~/.zshrc:sh

    # ~/.zshrc
    
    eval "$(starship init zsh)"

    Powershell

    Add the following to the end of Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1. You can check the location of this file by querying the $PROFILE variable in PowerShell. Typically the path is ~\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 or ~/.config/powershell/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 on -Nix.sh

    Invoke-Expression (&starship init powershell)

    Ion

    Add the following to the end of ~/.config/ion/initrc:sh

    # ~/.config/ion/initrc
    
    eval $(starship init ion)

    Elvish

    WARNING

    Only elvish v0.18 or higher is supported.

    Add the following to the end of ~/.elvish/rc.elv:sh

    # ~/.elvish/rc.elv
    
    eval (starship init elvish)

    Tcsh

    Add the following to the end of ~/.tcshrc:sh

    # ~/.tcshrc
    
    eval `starship init tcsh`

    Nushell

    WARNING

    This will change in the future. Only Nushell v0.96+ is supported.

    Add the following to the end of your Nushell configuration (find it by running $nu.config-path in Nushell):sh

    mkdir ($nu.data-dir | path join "vendor/autoload")
    starship init nu | save -f ($nu.data-dir | path join "vendor/autoload/starship.nu")

    Xonsh

    Add the following to the end of ~/.xonshrc:sh

    # ~/.xonshrc
    
    execx($(starship init xonsh))

    Cmd

    You need to use Clink (v1.2.30+) with Cmd. Add the following to a file starship.lua and place this file in Clink scripts directory:lua

    -- starship.lua
    
    load(io.popen('starship init cmd'):read("*a"))()
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