Personalize Mac Terminal Prompt

How to personalize the mac prompt on Terminal. Please notice you will need to update your terminal as the default Mac Terminal is not the best in the market.

I personally like user Hyper a terminal created by Juan Campa @juancampa, Julien Déléan @HaBou69 and Daniel Imms @tyriar at https://github.com/vercel/hyper

I use an excellent terminal done by the Hyper team, you can download it here: https://hyper.is/

Basic Package Needed

If you do not have Homebrew 🍺 yet installed just follow the steps here: https://brew.sh/ Or simply run the script on terminal

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

After installing Homebrew you can install Zsh as default prompt running

brew install zsh

At this point your Prompt should be already changed with Zsh it is time to install Oh-My-Zsh (https://ohmyz.sh/) running the script

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Lets Edit some code

First you will need to install the Zsh source either using

nano ~/.zshrc

Or you can open it on the Mac Text Editor with the command

open ~/.zshrc

If you do not have this able on the Zsh source you can add it and add the plugins as bellow commented

plugins=(
emoji #start the Emoji Plugin for Oh-My-Zsh
)

After saving the file type source ~/.zhrc on the command line to restart Zsh prompt. Now, to make sure the plugin is loaded try this command

echo $emoji[mouse_face]

If all is fine you should see this emoji 🐭

Now lets Personalize it

At this point you should already see a different prompt and everything should be set with Zsh.

Lets have some fun and personalize more your prompt. Double check what theme are you using on Zsh with the command prompt nano ~/.zshrc In my example case I'm using ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell",

Just look for the ZSH_THEME line.

Now you know your theme you can edit your theme code to customize the prompt line, the installed theme list can be found here ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/ If you type ls you will list all themes installed on Zsh.

To edit the theme just use the command

nano ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/robbyrussell.zsh-theme

Notice the themes are hosted under ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/

Once your theme opens up on nano you can play with the prompt configuration, in my case I'm using the following:

PROMPT="%(?:%{$fg_bold[grey]%}$(random_emoji faces) % ⌘:%{$fg_bold[red]%}$emoji[pouting_face] % ⌘ )"

Code Detail (random_emoji faces) will randomize the Face Emoji family and will show a different Emoji every time I open terminal. %{$fg_bold[red]%}$emoji[pouting_face] % ⌘ is shown when a code is wrongly typed but in my case to add a little more Atitude to my PROMPT

Graphic example %{$fg_bold[red]%}$emoji[pouting_face] % ⌘

%{$fg_bold[red]%}$emoji[pouting_face] %

For more emoji reference check out the documentation under the Oh-My-Zsh repository https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/tree/master/plugins/emoji

And after you configured it run source ~/.zhrc your emoji should show up on the prompt