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Starship is the minimal, blazing fast, and extremely customizable prompt for any shell!
The prompt shows information you need while you're working, while staying sleek and out of the way.

🍬 Features

• Prompt character turns red if the last command exits with non-zero code
• Current Elm version (🌳)
• Current Go version (🐹)
• Current Haskell version (λ)
• Current Java version(☕)
• Current Node.js version(⬢)
• Current PHP version (🐘)
• Current Python version (🐍)
• Current Ruby version (💎)
• Current Rust version (🦀)
• Current .NET version (•NET)
• Current Crystal version (🔮).
• Current version of package in current directory (📦)
  • npm (Node.js)
  • cargo (Rust)
  • poetry (Python)
  • composer (PHP)
• Current Git branch and rich repo status:
  • = — conflicting changes
  • ⇡ — ahead of remote branch
  • ⇣ — behind of remote branch
  • ⇕ — diverged changes
  • ? — untracked changes
  • $ — stashed changes
  • ! — modified files
  • + — added files
  • » — renamed files
  • ✘ — deleted files
• Current Mercurial branch
• Current battery level and status
  • ⇡ – charging
  • ⇣ – discharging
  • • – fully charged
• Indicator for jobs in the background (✦)
• Current Kubernetes Cluster and Namespace (☸)
• Current Amazon Web Services (AWS) profile (☁️)
• Execution time of the last command
• Custom environment variable value
• Nix-shell environment detection
• Current username if not the same as the logged-in user
• Optional current time in 12/24hr format
• Current Terraform Workspace and version (💠)
• Current Conda environment (C)

🚀 Installation

Prerequisites

• A Powerline font installed and enabled in your terminal (for example, try Fira Code).

Getting Started

1. Install the starship binary:

   Install Latest Version

   From prebuilt binary, with Shell:

   curl -fsSL https://starship.rs/install.sh | bash
   

   From source on crates.io:

   cargo install starship
   

   Install via Package Manager

   With Homebrew:

   brew install starship
   

   With Scoop:

   scoop install starship
   

2. Add the init script to your shell's config file:

   Bash

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

   # ~/.bashrc
   
   eval "$(starship init bash)"
   

   Fish

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

   # ~/.config/fish/config.fish
   
   starship init fish | source
   

   Zsh

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

   # ~/.zshrc
   
   eval "$(starship init zsh)"
   

   PowerShell

   Add the following to the end of ~\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 (or ~/.config/powershell/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 on -Nix):

   # ~\Documents\PowerShell\Profile.ps1
   
   Invoke-Expression (&starship init powershell)
   

   Ion

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

   # ~/.config/ion/initrc
   
   eval $(starship init ion)
   

🔧 Configuration

For details on how to configure Starship, check out our documentation.

🤝 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.

High Priority Needs

• 👩‍💼 Product Manager
  • We have a GitHub Project and many unorganized/unprioritized features, as well as ideas that haven't yet been made into issues. Starship needs someone to own the product direction!
• 👩‍🎨 Designer
  • Like making eye-catching websites? Excellent! We are looking to create a beautiful landing page showing off Starship in all its glory. Helping design for Starship's brand is a great opportunity to try out new ideas!
• 👩‍💻 Rust Developer
  • There is a lot of low-hanging fruit when it comes to writing idiomatic Rust, designing effective Rust architecture, performance optimizations, cross-platform build optimizations, and more! I (@matchai) am a beginner to Rust. Come point us in the right direction!

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. 👋

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Matan Kushner 💻 🎨 🤔 🚇 🚧 👀 ⚠️	John Letey 💻 🤔 👀 ⚠️	Tim Mulqueen 💻 🤔 👀 ⚠️	Tiffany Le-Nguyen 🤔 🚧 👀 📖	​Snuggle 🎨 🤔 🚧 👀	Ryan Leckey 👀	Youssef Habri 💻 📖 ⚠️
Kevin Song 🐛 💻 📖 ⚠️	Andrew Dassonville 🐛 💻	MaT1g3R 💻 📖 ⚠️	André Zanellato 💻 📖 ⚠️	Saghm Rossi 💻 📖 ⚠️	Shu Kutsuzawa 💻 📖 ⚠️ 🌍	Saurav Sharma 💻 📖
Thomas O'Donnell 💻 ⚠️ 📖 👀	Bruno Bigras 💻 👀	Neil Kistner 💻 ⚠️ 👀	Quinn Strahl 💻 ⚠️	Titouan Vervack 💻 ⚠️	Francisco Lopes 💻	Andrew Houts 💻 📖 ⚠️
Nick Young 💻 📖 ⚠️ 👀	Gabriel de Perthuis 💻	Hofer-Julian 📖	Yuji Ueki 🖋 🌍	谢祯晖 💻 📖 🌍 👀	Kutsuzawa Ryo 👀 💻 ⚠️ 🌍	hdevalke 🤔
Kuba Clark 💻 📖 ⚠️	Gimbar 💻 ⚠️ 📖	Tom Hotston 💻 📖	Bijan Chokoufe Nejad 💻 ⚠️ 👀	yuri 💻 📖 ⚠️	TsubasaKawajiri 🌍	Ryo Yamashita 💻
Thomas Lee 💻	(´⌣`ʃƪ) 💻	Barnaby Keene 💻	Keith Wade 💻 ⚠️	LukeAI 📖	Zach Mertes 💻 📖 ⚠️	David Knaack 💻 📖 ⚠️
Carl Summers 📖	Yushan Lin 🌍	Weihang Lo 🌍	pinshan 🌍	Brian Low 💻 📖 ⚠️	Matias Kotlik 💻	marblenix 🚇 💻 ⚠️
Raidou 💻 ⚠️	Luca Greco 💻 📖 ⚠️	Luca Rinaldi 💻	Stephen Ball 💻 ⚠️ 📖	Qingping Hou 💻 📖 ⚠️	Dan Wendorf 💻 ⚠️	Alan Pope 🚇
BuggStream 💻 📖	Jon Grythe Stødle 💻 ⚠️	Jason Etcovitch 🐛	Etienne Mabille 💻	AppleTheGolden 💻 📖	Mike Sampson 💻 📖 ⚠️	Dominik Braun 💻
David Hewson 💻	Gennady Koshkin 🌍	Oleksii Filonenko 🌍	Artem Ivanov 🌍	Peter Bull 💻 ⚠️	Andrew Prokhorenkov 💻 📖 ⚠️	chirsz 🌍

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

💭 Inspired By

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

• denysdovhan/spaceship-prompt - A ZSH prompt for astronauts.

• denysdovhan/robbyrussell-node - Cross-shell robbyrussell theme written in JavaScript.

• reujab/silver - A cross-shell customizable powerline-like prompt with icons.

📝 License

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