xelabash

A few simple, no-nonsense, non-distracting additions to the standard bash prompt.

Features

• Compact, minimalist, single-line prompt, featuring:
  • Red $ (or #, if root) in prompt following an error
  • user@hostname, but only when in a remote session
  • Git branch and working copy dirty status, when in a Git repo
  • Active Kubernetes context and namespace
• "Better"-than-default autocomplete settings
• Not overly opinionated; designed to integrate with other settings and tools if desired

Install and Setup

Works best with bash 4.4+. There are no dependencies to install.

To install, simply clone this repo and source xela.bash in your .bash_profile. (If .bash_profile doesn't work, try .bashrc.)

cd
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/aelindeman/xelabash "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-~/.local/share}/xelabash"
echo 'source "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-~/.local/share}/xelabash/xela.bash"' >> .bash_profile

Xelabash will load configuration files from the config.d/ folder in this repository, so you can fork this repo and add your own aliases, configs, functions, environment variables, or whatever else you need.

Git and Kubernetes prompt pieces are opt-in. Just set GIT_PROMPT=true and/or KUBE_PROMPT=true before you load Xelabash:

GIT_PROMPT=true
KUBE_PROMPT=true
source ~/.local/share/xelabash/xela.bash

Alternatively, if you don't want to always see them, use a tool like direnv to set those environment variables conditionally based on your working directory.

More pictures

• Full cwd

  

• Git status and branch

  

• Kubernetes context (and namespace, if set)

  

• Last process exit status

  

• Username and hostname, when connected via ssh

  

• ...and they all work in combination with each other