description: Starship is the minimal, blazing fast, and extremely customizable prompt for any shell! Shows the information you need, while staying sleek and minimal. Quick installation available for Bash, Fish, ZSH, Ion, Tcsh, Elvish, Nu, Xonsh, Cmd, and PowerShell.
- A [Nerd Font](https://www.nerdfonts.com/) installed and enabled in your terminal.
### Quick Install
1. Install the **starship** binary:
#### Install Latest Version
With Shell:
```sh
curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh
```
To update the Starship itself, rerun the above script. It will replace the current version without touching Starship's configuration.
#### Install via Package Manager
With [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/):
```sh
brew install starship
```
With [Winget](https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli):
```powershell
winget install starship
```
1. Add the init script to your shell's config file:
#### Bash
Add the following to the end of `~/.bashrc`:
```sh
# ~/.bashrc
eval "$(starship init bash)"
```
#### Fish
Add the following to the end of `~/.config/fish/config.fish`:
```sh
# ~/.config/fish/config.fish
starship init fish | source
```
#### Zsh
Add the following to the end of `~/.zshrc`:
```sh
# ~/.zshrc
eval "$(starship init zsh)"
```
#### Powershell
Add the following to the end of `Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1`. You can check the location of this file by querying the `$PROFILE` variable in PowerShell. Typically the path is `~\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1` or `~/.config/powershell/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1` on -Nix.
```sh
Invoke-Expression (&starship init powershell)
```
#### Ion
Add the following to the end of `~/.config/ion/initrc`:
```sh
# ~/.config/ion/initrc
eval $(starship init ion)
```
#### Elvish
::: warning
Only elvish v0.18 or higher is supported.
:::
Add the following to the end of `~/.elvish/rc.elv`:
```sh
# ~/.elvish/rc.elv
eval (starship init elvish)
```
#### Tcsh
Add the following to the end of `~/.tcshrc`:
```sh
# ~/.tcshrc
eval `starship init tcsh`
```
#### Nushell
::: warning
This will change in the future. Only Nushell v0.78+ is supported.
starship init nu | save -f ~/.cache/starship/init.nu
```
And add the following to the end of your Nushell configuration (find it by running `$nu.config-path`):
```sh
use ~/.cache/starship/init.nu
```
#### Xonsh
Add the following to the end of `~/.xonshrc`:
```sh
# ~/.xonshrc
execx($(starship init xonsh))
```
#### Cmd
You need to use [Clink](https://chrisant996.github.io/clink/clink.html) (v1.2.30+) with Cmd. Add the following to a file `starship.lua` and place this file in Clink scripts directory: