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fish_prompt - define the appearance of the command line prompt¶

Synopsis¶

function fish\_prompt...end

Description¶

The fish_prompt function is executed when the prompt is to be shown, and the output is used as a prompt.

The exit status of commands within fish_prompt will not modify the value of $status outside of the fish_prompt function.

fish ships with a number of example prompts that can be chosen with the fish_config command.

Example¶

A simple prompt:

function fish\_prompt -d "Write out the prompt"# This shows up as USER@HOST /home/user/ \>, with the directory colored# $USER and $hostname are set by fish, so you can just use them# instead of using `whoami` and `hostname`printf '%s@%s %s%s%s \> ' $USER $hostname \(set\_color $fish\_color\_cwd) (prompt\_pwd) (set\_color normal)end