Themes

There are over 50+ Bash-it themes to pick from in $BASH_IT/themes. The default theme is bobby. Set BASH_IT_THEME to the theme name you want, or if you’ve developed your own custom theme outside of $BASH_IT/themes, point the BASH_IT_THEME variable directly to the theme file. To disable theming completely, leave the variable empty.

Examples:

# Use the "powerline-multiline" theme
export BASH_IT_THEME="powerline-multiline"

# Use a theme outside of the Bash-it folder
export BASH_IT_THEME="/home/foo/my_theme/my_theme.theme.bash"

# Disable theming
export BASH_IT_THEME=""

You can easily preview the themes in your own shell using bash-it preview.

If you’ve created your own custom prompts, we’d love it if you shared them with everyone else! Just submit a Pull Request. You can see theme screenshots on wiki/Themes.

NOTE: Bash-it and some themes use UTF-8 characters, so to avoid strange behavior in your terminal, set your locale to LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 or the equivalent to your language if it isn’t American English.

List of Themes

See here.

Theme Switches & Variables

Command duration

Prints last command duration

Usage

Command duration can be enabled by exporting BASH_IT_COMMAND_DURATION:

export BASH_IT_COMMAND_DURATION=true

The default configuration display last command duration for command lasting one second or more. You can customize the minimum time in seconds before command duration is displayed in your .bashrc:

export COMMAND_DURATION_MIN_SECONDS=5

Clock Related

function: clock_char

Prints a character indicating clock.

• THEME_SHOW_CLOCK_CHAR : true/false

• THEME_CLOCK_CHAR : “⌚“

• THEME_CLOCK_CHAR_COLOR : “$normal“

function: clock_prompt

Prints the clock prompt (date, time).

• THEME_SHOW_CLOCK : true/false

• THEME_CLOCK_COLOR : “$normal“

• THEME_CLOCK_FORMAT : “%H:%M:%S“

Contributing a new theme

See the instructions.