Bash Color Prompt (bcp)

This project provides a color prompt for Bash. It is a rework of the original Fedora bash-color-prompt package with a cleaner declarative builder pattern approach, which makes it easy to create clean highly customized bash prompts.

How to try it out

Execute or add:

source bash-color-prompt.sh

bcp_init

to ~/.bashrc say.

bcp_init() sets up PROMPT_COMMAND to build PS1.

By default it uses the _bcp_default_layout() configuration, which gives a green bold prompt: user@localhost:~$ , with the same appearance as the current default Fedora prompt. It could be made to support default prompts for other OS's.

System installation

• bcp-profile.sh should be installed as /etc/profile.d/bash-color-prompt.sh
• bash-color-prompt.sh should be installed in /usr/share/bash-color-prompt/bcp.sh

Users should then add bcp_setup to their .bashrc (.bashrc.d/) if they wish to activate prompt layout customization, and they can define their own bcp_layout prompt. (bcp_setup loads the bcp functions and runs bcp_init.)

Configuration

Users can optionally define bcp_layout() to specify a custom prompt using bcp_append, etc, to their liking.

See bashrc.d/bcp-cfg.sh for a custom example.

Note that bcp's functions may still be subject to change at this time.

More interesting example

Before adding to your bashrc, you can also test this example in a bash session with: source examples/local.bashrc.sh

Requirements

Currently it requires Bash 5.1 or later.

Help and Contribute

Please open an issue in https://github.com/juhp/bash-color-prompt.

License

bash-color-prompt is distributed under the GPL license version 3 or later.