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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 username if not the same as the logged-in user
• Current Node.js version(⬢)
• Current Rust version (🦀)
• Current Ruby version (💎).
• Current Python version (🐍)
• Current Go version (🐹)
• Package version of package in current directory (📦)
• Current battery level and status
• 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
• Execution time of the last command if it exceeds the set threshold
• Indicator for jobs in the background (✦)

🚀 Installation

Prerequisites

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

Getting Started

1. Install the starship binary:

   Download archives of precompiled binaries if you don't use the platforms below.

   Homebrew

   $ brew install starship
   

   Rust (v1.33 or higher)

   $ cargo 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
   
   eval (starship init fish)
   

   Zsh

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

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

🔧 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 💻 📖 ⚠️

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

📝 License

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