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March 19, 2019

Pimp the bash prompt with Go Bullet Train (GBT)

Pimp the bash prompt with a fast PS1 builder with a lot of ways for you to customize. Meet the Go Bullet Train I’ve been playing around with powerline and quite liked it but I was never really completely satisfied. I though the powerline was quite slow, not extremely slow but slow enough for me to get a bit frustrated. I also thought it was a bit of a hassle to update all my devices with new config when I decided to change the prompt.

This is where gbt comes to the rescue, it’s fast and has the possibility to forward prompts to remote servers with a bash implementation gbts

this is how my prompt looks like right now alt text alt text alt text alt text alt text alt text

I’m using nerdfont, the ‘hack’ version of it to be specific. A nerdfont is more or less needed if you want to display OS logo in your bash prompt.

download a nerdfont https://nerdfonts.com/ unzip it to ~/.fonts and run following command to update font cache

fc-cache -fv

First make sure you have go installed and fetch the code and install it as your normal user

sudo zypper in go1.11
go get -u github.com/jtyr/gbt/cmd/gbt
go install github.com/jtyr/gbt/cmd/gbt

gbt has a lot of settings, this is my configuration in my .bashrc

if [[ -f ~/go/bin/gbt ]]; then
    export VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT=1
    export PS1='$(~/go/bin/gbt)'
    export GBT_CARS='OS, Git, Dir, PyVirtEnv, Custom1, Custom2, Custom3, Status, Sign'
    export GBT_CAR_OS_NAME='opensuse'
    export GBT_CAR_PYVIRTENV_FORMAT=''
    export GBT_CAR_DIR_BG='dark_gray'
    export GBT_CAR_DIR_DEPTH='3'
    export GBT_CAR_STATUS_FORMAT='  '
    export GBT_CAR_SIGN_USER_TEXT=''
    export GBT_CAR_CUSTOM1_TEXT_TEXT='MyDot: error'
    export GBT_CAR_CUSTOM1_BG='red'
    export GBT_CAR_CUSTOM1_DISPLAY_CMD="/home/jonas/bin/mydot_gbt_status.sh check_error"
    export GBT_CAR_CUSTOM1_TEXT_TEXT='MyDot: err'
    export GBT_CAR_CUSTOM2_BG='green'
    export GBT_CAR_CUSTOM2_FG='black'
    export GBT_CAR_CUSTOM2_TEXT_TEXT='MyDot: commit'
    export GBT_CAR_CUSTOM2_DISPLAY_CMD="/home/jonas/bin/mydot_gbt_status.sh check_status"
    export GBT_CAR_CUSTOM3_TEXT_TEXT='MyDot: push'
    export GBT_CAR_CUSTOM3_BG='green'
    export GBT_CAR_CUSTOM3_FG='black'
    export GBT_CAR_CUSTOM3_DISPLAY_CMD="/home/jonas/bin/mydot_gbt_status.sh check_pull"

    #Prompt forward:
    export GBT__HOME="${HOME}/go/src/github.com/jtyr/gbt"
    export GBT__CARS_REMOTE='OS, Hostname, Git, Dir, Status, Sign'
    export GBT__THEME_SSH="${HOME}/.gbts_theme.sh"
    source  ~/go/src/github.com/jtyr/gbt/sources/gbts/cmd/local.sh
    alias ssh='gbt_ssh'
fi

the prompt forward theme looks like this

export GBT_CARS="${GBT__THEME_REMOTE_CARS:=OS, Hostname, Git, Dir, Status, Sign}"
export GBT_CAR_DIR_BG='dark_gray'
export GBT_CAR_DIR_DEPTH='3'
export GBT_CAR_SIGN_USER_TEXT=''
export GBT_CAR_STATUS_FORMAT='  '
export GBT_CAR_HOSTNAME_ADMIN_FG='light_red'
export GBT_CAR_HOSTNAME_USER_FG='green'
export GBT_CAR_HOSTNAME_USER_BG='dark_gray'
export GBT_CAR_HOSTNAME_HOST_FG='light_green'
export GBT_CAR_HOSTNAME_HOST_BG='dark_gray'
export GBT_CAR_HOSTNAME_HOST_FM='bold'

I do have some issues that I’ve not figured out yet.

But so far I can live with thouse issues

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