Cross-shell prompt framework

💡 About

DIYship is a cross-shell prompt framework that let you write your prompt with any programing language for any shell.

Learn more about how its work.

🚀 Setup

📥 Installation

To install DIYship to your shell, simply append the correspond code file on this repo to your shell config file.

🐚 Bash

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/info-mono/diyship/main/bash >> ~/.bashrc

🐚 Zsh

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/info-mono/diyship/main/zshrc >> ~/.zshrc

🐚 Fish

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/info-mono/diyship/main/fish >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish

🐚 PowerShell

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/info-mono/diyship/main/powerShell >> ~/.config/powershell/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

🐚 Ion

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/info-mono/diyship/main/ion >> ~/.config/ion/initrc

🐚 Elvish

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/info-mono/diyship/main/elvish >> ~/.elvish/rc.elv

Warning Only Elvish v0.18 or higher is supported.

🐚 Tcsh

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/info-mono/diyship/main/tcsh >> ~/.tcshrc

🐚 Nushell

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/info-mono/diyship/main/nushell >> ~/.config/nu/config.toml

🐚 Xonsh

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/info-mono/diyship/main/xonsh >> ~/.xonshrc

Warning Only Nushell version v0.33 or higher is supported.

⚙️ Configuration

DIYship is basically execute a command (which could be a path to an executable script file or program) and take it output as a prompt, you can change the command through variable:

Environment variable	Description
DIYSHIP_COMMAND_LEFT	Command to print left prompt.
DIYSHIP_COMMAND_RIGHT	Command to print right prompt.

Note You can disable right prompt by DIYSHIP_COMMAND_RIGHT="test"

DIYship will export these following environment variables before running the commands to print out prompts, so you could utilize theme informations in your script/program:

Environment variable	Description
$DIYSHIP_SHELL	Current shell name.
$DIYSHIP_STATUS	The status code of the previously run command.
$DIYSHIP_PIPESTATUS	Status codes from a command pipeline.
$DIYSHIP_DURATION	The execution duration of the last command (in milliseconds).
$DIYSHIP_JOBS	The number of currently running jobs
$DIYSHIP_KEYMAP	The current keymap.

Do to many technical limitation, not every shell support all features:

Feature	Bash	Zsh	Fish	Powershell	Ion	Elvish	Tcsh	Nushell	Xonsh
Left prompt	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Right prompt		✅	✅			✅			✅
Export current shell	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Export status	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅		✅		✅
Export pipe status	✅	✅	✅
Export duration	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Export jobs	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅			✅
Export keymap		✅	✅

Note For more documentation and inspiration about writing your own prompt, checkout ours wiki and Starship's custom modules.

💌 Credits

This project was heavily based on and inspired by Starship.

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Made with ❤️ by @info-mono