starship 1.4.2

The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell! ☄🌌️
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The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

  • Fast: it's fast – really really fast! 🚀
  • Customizable: configure every aspect of your prompt.
  • Universal: works on any shell, on any operating system.
  • Intelligent: shows relevant information at a glance.
  • Feature rich: support for all your favorite tools.
  • Easy: quick to install – start using it in minutes.

🚀 Installation

Prerequisites

Step 1. Install Starship

Select your operating system from the list below to view installation instructions:

Install Starship using any of the following package managers:

Repository Instructions
Termux pkg install starship

Install Starship using any of the following package managers:

Distribution Repository Instructions
Any crates.io cargo install starship --locked
FreeBSD FreshPorts pkg install starship
NetBSD pkgsrc pkgin install starship

Install the latest version for your system:

curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh

Alternatively, install Starship using any of the following package managers:

Distribution Repository Instructions
Any crates.io cargo install starship --locked
Any conda-forge conda install -c conda-forge starship
Any Linuxbrew brew install starship
Any Snapcraft snap install starship
Alpine Linux 3.13+ Alpine Linux Packages apk add starship
Arch Linux Arch Linux Community pacman -S starship
CentOS 7+ Copr dnf copr enable atim/starship dnf install starship
Fedora 31+ Fedora Packages dnf install starship
NixOS nixpkgs nix-env -iA nixos.starship
Gentoo Gentoo Packages emerge app-shells/starship
Manjaro pacman -S starship
NixOS nixpkgs nix-env -iA nixpkgs.starship
Void Linux Void Linux Packages xbps-install -S starship

Install the latest version for your system:

curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh

Alternatively, install Starship using any of the following package managers:

Repository Instructions
crates.io cargo install starship --locked
conda-forge conda install -c conda-forge starship
Homebrew brew install starship
MacPorts port install starship

Install Starship using any of the following package managers:

Repository Instructions
crates.io cargo install starship --locked
Chocolatey choco install starship
conda-forge conda install -c conda-forge starship
Scoop scoop install starship

Step 2. Setup your shell to use Starship

Configure your shell to initialize starship. Select yours from the list below:

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

eval "$(starship init bash)"

You need to use Clink (v1.2.30+) with Cmd. Create a file at this path %LocalAppData%\clink\starship.lua with the following contents:

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

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

eval (starship init elvish)

Note: Only Elvish v0.17+ is supported

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

starship init fish | source

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

eval $(starship init ion)

Add the following to the end of your Nushell configuration (find it by running config path):

startup = [
  "mkdir ~/.cache/starship",
  "starship init nu | save ~/.cache/starship/init.nu",
  "source ~/.cache/starship/init.nu",
]
prompt = "starship_prompt"

Add the following to the end of your PowerShell configuration (find it by running $PROFILE):

Invoke-Expression (&starship init powershell)

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

eval `starship init tcsh`

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

execx($(starship init xonsh))

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

eval "$(starship init zsh)"

Step 3. Configure Starship

Start a new shell instance, and you should see your beautiful new shell prompt. If you're happy with the defaults, enjoy!

If you're looking to further customize Starship:

  • Configuration – learn how to configure Starship to tweak your prompt to your liking

  • Presets – get inspired by the pre-built configuration of others

🤝 Contributing

We are always looking for contributors of all skill levels! If you're looking to ease your way into the project, try out a good first issue.

If you are fluent in a non-English language, we greatly appreciate any help keeping our docs translated and up-to-date in other languages. If you would like to help, translations can be contributed on the Starship Crowdin.

If you are interested in helping contribute to starship, please take a look at our Contributing Guide. Also, feel free to drop into our Discord server and say hi. 👋

💭 Inspired By

Please check out these previous works that helped inspire the creation of starship. 🙏

📝 License

Copyright © 2019-present, Starship Contributors. This project is ISC licensed.