Transient Bash

Bare bones implementation of transient prompt bash

How to use

Download the file and append it to the init bash file

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/safesintesi/transient-prompt-bash/main/transient.sh -O - >> ~/.bashrc

Restart the terminal and you're good to go! If you want to have a different prompt you can just edit PS1 in your .bashrc.

How it works

The script makes available two new functions:

• deleteprompt: counts how many lines long is the PS1 variable and deletes them;
• lastcommand: returns the last command used, used to create the reduced version of PS1.

Those functions are used to delete the prompt and rewrite it.

Bugs and support

This has only been tested on Ubuntu 22.10 default terminal with bash. This does not work with oh-my-posh. If you find out bugs or you want to contribute this repo is open to new issues and pull requests.