Beautiful Bash

Tired of an Ugly prompt with no features? Fix it with this guide!
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[@ChrisTitusTech]

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[@Mahid410]

can run this script in fedora....😴

[@idjdbrvvskambvvv9007]

madness absolutely beautiful

[@arka4042]

Hey, I just installed this and something seems off, so I want to go back to my original bash. I am a total beginner in linux, so please tell me what to do now? Even 'cd' was not working, until I installed some 'zoxide'!

[@arka4042]

Please tell me how to set my default shell to my previous, normal bash again

[@ChrisTitusTech]

@@arka4042 use the chsh command

[@RainbowVision]

Never replace someone's entire bashrc file with a symlink. The bashrc is holy and should be respected. Only ever append or prepend stuff and let the user know you're doing so. Edit: I mean ask the user if it's okay to source the additional config (my original comment wasn't clear enough)

[@youdontknowme2508]

Holy moly

[@RainbowVision]

@@youdontknowme2508 guacamole?

[@neon_Nomad]

@@RainbowVision for rolly-oli

[@DmnkRocks]

this video will kill so many (novice) user's bashrc and zshrc

[@markh.6687]

"This video depicts advanced Linux techniques, which may not be suitable for newbies. Viewer discretion is advised. The video camera's rolling...."

[@darkwaveatheist]

This works really well for a personal system. Don't use something like this as a crutch though if you have to log into multiple random systems. Just like you should know ed, ex, and vi before using some exotic vim profile. You never know what caveman-arsed system you might have to work on.

[@igorrodriguez9942]

The thing I like more about your content is that you come up with great stuff that I usually don't even think about (like the Homebrew video, too). Thanks a lot!

[@prettyfast-original]

"So if you have a bash.rc, you're probably gonna wipe that out." wut dude?

[@exismys]

really fucking sick

[@monkabang9107]

I'm somewhat late to the party. For new linux users wanting to revert to their original bash, you can do so with the following command: cat /etc/skel/.bashrc > ~/.bashrc That is, revert to the .bashrc file created with the home directory.

[@pj85438]

Cheers! That is good to know.

[@lipsky7855]

Thank you so much internet person, you just saved me ton of googling

[@grndplane]

Thanks Chris you did an excelent job with starship and autojump, could you do a tutorial on these and go into your thinking a bit more? Can we loose the symlinks? I think it would be better, faster, more robust without symlinks. Thanks for the great guides and tutorials.

[@bedeamadi9317]

Thanks Chris, Love the new look of my terminal:)

[@fixer1140]

Awesome content Chris, thank you very much indeed. On another note, I installed your bootloader and it was working great until I upgraded Mint to version 21. Any ideas?

[@hubb-tech]

Thanks Chris. Much appreciated.

[@muhammadmuhajiralfath]

Can you please tell what font must to be added ? some icons cannto appear corectly in my ubuntu

[@khushalgrover1251]

same issue

[@jsf17]

Same here, I have weird Omega symbols in the prompt :/

[@olafschermann1592]

Great work, thank you for sharing

[@waguiness]

Thanks Cris for the great config!! I note that it is not showing python virtual envs in the prompt. Any idea of how configure this?

[@ygiagam]

Thank you for another awesome video.

[@DaleYaw]

Apparently on the current version of the beautiful bash the bashrc file is replaced. The error did not pop up for me. Also it set up as default editor vim. Personally I am not familiar with vim, so it was a bit frustrating when found out. Hopefully it was easy to fix by just commenting out the section on bashrc about the default editor.

[@abzs5811]

And I ALSO love the way he zooms in so we can see the tiny font Again great job 😂

[@brandleesee]

Can these customizations be reflected in the TTY consoles, too?

[@andrewnorris5415]

Thanks for doing this.

[@abzs5811]

I absolutely love the way he makes this shit easy for beginners Great job

[@GrindAlchemyTech]

🧑🏽‍💻♌💗 I'm playing around with debian & Wayland....lol I'm still friends with my tinycore build eventhough the frustration associated with tinycore was way more than I anticipated 😅...definitely learning how wild linux land can get..I must be insane because I absolutely love it....😅😅😅 thanks Chris for all the material... I feel like a DJ digging through the crates looking for the special vinyl you've got some great hits bro

[@octagear]

Ptse, the little teaser for next Monday, cute 😄

[@D1Ck3n]

Hey, thanks for the Guide! one weird thing: does your script change the timezone of the timestamp behind every command? i'm located in germany and my timestamp is 8h behind my time 😄

[@thomaskosvic6103]

what do you need time in your prompt for when it is a bottom right of screen ???

[@org.name_here]

Would be much appreciated if you could do a universal guide on your bspwm config. I wanted to get into tiling managers for quite a while and this would be the perfect start.

[@org.name_here]

@@donaldmickunas8552 Thanks

[@soupborsh8707]

I like the "ugly" look

[@ZacLangston]

As a windows user i can't wait for next Monday!

[@JeremiahSlattery]

I've been trying to reproduce this on Arch and not doing well. Do you have any thoughts/ideas?

[@Iced-Tea]

The icons aren't working for me on the Iosevka nerd font. Hod do you turn them off?

[@ignaciocaballero1985]

Thanks Chris

[@gabrielcostasouza3961]

Hi Chris!! is there anyway to take the greek letters out? other than that seems good, thanks for the work!

[@muddyexport5639]

Thank you!

[@VorasilpKijchavengkul]

awesome. Thank you.

[@Wiscotac]

Nice demo!

[@WORMSTweaker]

I find it quite bad to symlink a .bashrc file to a random directory, the moment you cleanup your GitHub folder, you break bash and lose your customisations A copy command (like you offer at the start) might be better, yes, or maybe appending the changes to the current .bashrc file? Good presentation nonetheless!

[@nathanmiddleton1478]

Unless of course your doing something standard for *you*! My "bashrc" is in ~/.config/bash/rc and bash is run with that by default. But generally I'd agree. His approach for doing this just invites future disaster. Thankfully a typcial newb user won't understand what happens when they delete that github folder during a cleanup and all that customization disappeared.

[@WORMSTweaker]

@@nathanmiddleton1478 Yeah, I was worried about new Linux users, that might not understand why their bashrc suddenly disappeared after that cleanup, or don't even know what a bashrc is in the first place ahah

[@nathanmiddleton1478]

@@WORMSTweaker My fumbled attempt at agreement previously. No harm meant. I'm wordy and long-winded. ^_^

[@seweryn6556]

Hi Chris, Can you make video about steamOS and your gui modifications? I was looking for auto tiling and your beautiful bash but it looks like it could break some updates from valve. On the beginning you were happy with steam deck device that's why I wanted to ask you for this. This is my only device but desktop mode is not that much customisable as I wanted to.

[@shant-o]

Always wanted to know how your terminals were like this.. thanks for the video. Btw new linux user here :) and your channel has been quite helpful so far

[@Gray3ther]

It looks clean & thank you. But how do you disable the ls command from showing hidden files & folders?

[@peterwassmuth4014]

hi Chris. what are you thinking about Stratis File System.

[@emseek9822]

How can I remove the empty line above the prompt (or make it smaller)? It doesn't look very good when opening the terminal and there's just this useless empty line at the top...

[@primebear3960]

Chris i love your tool but it really does not disabling PowerThrottling,i cheked in registry also in Policy Editor and its not disabled

[@iMeMo_02]

I used this in a long time and now I want to return to the default because I want to see the virtual environment show up. So how can I turn back to the default. Any help ?

[@LLPOF]

I only replaced the section of my .bashrc file at the bottom that begins with # Set the ultimate amazing command prompt I have everything working correctly, except I don't have the rounded prompt. How can I get that?

[@soren777]

I want it to be next Monday already!!

[@Gammalt]

Does it still show the virtual env?

[@docfaizal]

will this starship work with fish shell too??

[@tomcedukoski]

how do i change it from blue to another color i want since i am using gruvbox i want a orange color

[@ex0ja]

How do you get the translucent background though

[@dalescorcher5568]

could not you use "mv *.ttf ~/.fonts" prob will only move everything with .ttf extension

[@akosdanielbollok4956]

How do you change it from these blueish colors to sg else??

[@SavciSV]

it gives me bash: zoxide: command not found in every cd command i do Edit: Solved after executing 'sudo apt install -y zoxide' Thanks for the new theme

[@StephenZura]

On both my Raspberry pi and my Ubuntu on WSL2 the ~/.config directory does not exist. You may want to add a check/creation of this directory to the script.

[@KratomSyndicate]

same issue here

[@ShadowWolf2023-yp5zg]

I love how my bash looks now.

[@robertbutcher222]

I’m assuming installing this pretty bash works on bash for windows too?

[@whiskey_neat]

if i access root.. the settings will revert..how can i set this so that it includes root?

[@nvevesthetic]

i use arch linux and when i run ./setup it give me back : to run me you need curl apt groups sudo

[@rishi2504]

Can we do this in zsh as well?

[@EmilKarloOLIakaKAN]

Fantastic altruistic work Mr. Chris.. God bless You :)

[@Booraad]

will this work with Git Bash for Windows?

[@nightmarenova6748]

Hey Chris , do you have the same thing for ZSH by any chance?

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Yup, Here you go: christitus.com/zsh/ Uses the Powerlevel10k theme as a base.

[@nightmarenova6748]

@@ChrisTitusTech much obliged 🙏

[@nichohells]

how do I remove the git-hub logo thingy in the bash?

[@notforyoutoknow6823]

Is anyone able to point me in the direction to change my command prompt? I swear I’ve looked everywhere and tried messing with all the proper files and I can’t get it to change anymore.

[@nikolastrapp787]

Does anyone know how do I enable syntax highlightning in bash (Konsole)?

[@user-fz6jj2qu9s]

why not just apped a line that sources the extra config instaed of deleting someones bashrc?

[@mr.sucram3635]

Hi Chris, I love your content. Just followed the steps of your setup guide, however I encountered a little hiccup. When I restart my system I get a warning : "Error found when loading /home/usr/.profile stty: 'standard input': Inappropriate ioctl for device As a result the session will not de configured correctly..." Tried to research about it, followed some thread about .profile and tty but I couldn't figure it out. I'm on PopOs might I add. Could you please give me some pointers where I might look into ? Many thanks (In the mean time I've reset my backup .bashrc)

[@MichaelWilliams-lr4mb]

You might want to post it as an issue on his github.

[@Petrisha]

I fixed it simply by opening the modified .bashrc and turning the line referencing tty into a comment. Saved and exited, and it's been fine since. Made the warning go away at boot.

[@ViszlaBoss]

I'll wait till next Monday 🙂

[@juanrincon6576]

I do really like Mononoki font from nerd fonts

[@hadiprasetiyo1930]

is this only for linux gitbash? no windows?

[@jsf17]

Is there something else that needs to be changes? Since my prompt shows weird vertical square brackets with vertical i letter inside instead of the nice arrows you have.

[@HihioLanth]

I think you should use a nerd fonts in your terminal. Those arrows are not standard ASCII characters, so the glyphs are not included in regular fonts. What terminal emulator you are using? Sometimes messed up locale can also cause the problem of improper glyph rendering.

[@JackDespero]

I see, so you wouldn't recommend comic sans in the terminal, no?

[@CyberXT7]

How to remove it..? i don't like aliases

[@atharvasupe1083]

how to enable hide hidden folders in this script

[@IKnowImStupidBut]

very neat

[@ezfrag5909]

how do i unlik this and restore my default bashrc?

[@Roger_Costello]

I believe that this does not work on Fedora, right?

[@bazoo513]

I think that using a prompt _program_ is a bit of an overkill. Well, for navigating local code repositories, perhaps...

[@tudomerda]

I bought your WinUtil but I don't see a menu option to remove One Drive and Windows Defender, am I blind or have you intentionally omitted those two ?. I don't run any antivirus on my gaming PC as it ONLY goes online for Steam gaming and some browsing.

[@soulstenance]

I found fish and fell in love.

[@TheRealJohnMadden]

I couldn't have found this video at a more perfect time, currently trying to get my Bash to be pretty and oh-my-posh is just being rude!

[@john75RRC]

I don't have apt on my system, hence it doesn't work. Any corrections I must perform? EDIT: download apt separately, still facing errors regarding my user not being a part of the "sudo" group. I use fedora, so I don't have the sudo. Nevertheless I su'd and created a system group and added my user to it. Sadly, it still doesn't work.

[@onejdc]

apt is a package manager for debian-based systems. You should probably use DNF or YUM on Fedora.

[@goodnewsmaphumulo8461]

Great work! But I had an issue with my bash prompt (directory). It doesn't follow: PS1='\u:~$ '

[@UltraZelda64]

It does look pretty with the arrow-shaped gradients and the colors when first opening a terminal, but after you've run a few commands and you see it repeating four, five or more times, it really starts to look ugly and just too in-your-face. Also, when you're in a directory with a long name and its path is taking up like half or more of the terminal and it's all fancy and stuff... it just seems too flashy to me. It's fun for a few minutes and always leaves a good impression when opening a new terminal, but after only a few minutes of real use I feel like these kinds of console customizations really wear out their welcome, leaving me wanting to go back to that "ugly," boring default.

[@LSGaming2405]

my bash overwrites in the same line please help

[@herkatron]

Is there any way I can easily uninstall this? It's been a long day, and I just naiively ran the setup. Now my bash is kinda funnky.

[@herkatron]

Never mind. I just overwrote using the .bashrc in /etc/skel. If anyone else makes this mistake I did, try that lol

[@nathanmiddleton1478]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! Don't judge my terminal by your standards ... :p EDIT: Previous was a reaction, but yeah as others have pointed out this is the wrong way to do this kind of cusomization. Maybe there's a type of user that only has Linux to open a terminal and run neofetch to bump their computer street cred or something and this works for them? IDK. Bad practice all around.

[@murshid9033]

How to set title to user@host:dir ?

[@RafaelLorenteSalgueiro]

I use OhMyZSH(manjaro) and Oh-My-Posh(windows), starship looks nice and I can use the same config in my dual-boot Manjaro-W11, I'll try it, thanks a great discover for me, autojump is like z in windows powershell , I dont like a symlink .bashrc, you can make backup and copy your file

[@moneyfr]

03:13 I loose all my bash rc config ??

[@juanignaciogilbordon1935]

how to uninstall this?? it is causing many errors and I need to know

[@thecompanioncube4211]

This is all done through the bashrc symlink. Google how to break that and you’ll uninstall all the changes

[@altraknowledge4432]

what about windows gitbash?

[@AlbertXuY]

Why not source?

[@shonay]

How do you get it to display the hostname of the computer you're working on?

[@NaethliN]

Check starship's documentation, you need to add the relevant section in your starship.toml

[@shonay]

@@NaethliN Thanks, I'll check that out.

[@NaethliN]

@@shonay let me know if you don't figure it out. I was on mobile on the street before, hence the approximate instructions.

[@twb0109]

It's "$hostname" in the format variable

[@sohaibesohaib2914]

how to undo ?

[@xroman_]

Thanks Chris, very cool stuff. However I deleted like 90% from the provided .bashrc file as it were some absolutely irrelevant personal configs.

[@vladimirbartek2743]

isn't this oh-my-posh? The themes look suspiciously similar, especially the powershell one

[@bogdanradu9013]

how can we get back to the initial config...I don`t like it ..and I want to go back to my old terminal

[@mr.sucram3635]

Your old ~/.bashrc was renamed to ~./bashrc.bak (for backup). So just delete the current ~/.bashrc and rename ~/.bashrc.bak to ~/.bashrc. Then restart terminal. Hope it helps

[@bogdanradu9013]

@@mr.sucram3635 Greetings from Romania!Thanks a lot! worked like a charm!

[@thodaentertainment1]

Can someone reply the command for removing this ??

[@pristine3700]

This broke my Pop-Os install. Didn’t lose data mind you, but get a persistent error now on boot. Maybe re-upload the video with changes most have suggested here were we don’t unilaterally mess with the bash.rc?

[@mr.sucram3635]

Same thing happened to me, on PopOs as well. @Pristine you can replace the current ~/.bashrc with ~./bashrc.bak (which is the backup of your old .bashrc). Hope it helps

[@pawelkuzia]

My Pop Os is now broken too, using my original file didn't help. What the hell, this script is really messed up.

[@mr.sucram3635]

@@pawelkuzia Did you restart or try "$source ~/.bashrc"? For your original file.

[@pawelkuzia]

@@mr.sucram3635 I just replaces new bashrc (the link in ~, not the real one in script folder with my backup and now my distro is not starting up. Something else could also break it, but I can't remember if I did anything else than playing some witcher and using this script.

[@mr.sucram3635]

@@pawelkuzia I'm not sure I understood what you said. Did you delete ~/.baschrc and then renamed ~/.bashrc.bak to ~/.bashrc ?

[@gwgux]

Nice little script, but one really shouldn't be symlinking their bashrc file to a directory like that where if they go in and clean up their git hub directory, they can delete their bashrc file by accident. You're better off putting it somewhere else, or look at appending their existing one after commenting everything else out. You may also want to really consider backing up their current bashrc file before doing anything to it. You can always tell and show people how to do it themselves and tell people that they should always check scripts before they run them, but lets be real, a newer Linux user just coming over from Windows or Mac may not be that cautious and usually won't know enough about what the bashrc file does to handle this right (Mac users have a chance, but not very likely for Windows users).

[@mchi2214]

this is so true!

[@arka4042]

I have no idea what u r talking about bcz I am a total beginner at this. Just got afraid how to get back my normal shell if something goes wrong with this one.

[@mchi2214]

@@arka4042 just make a copy of your default bashrc.

[@TheRowie75]

TOP!!

[@prakharverma2286]

Thanks. My bash is fucked up now :)