使用 Homebrew, MacPorts 安装 bashish

项目链接

• 主页

命令和别名

• bashish
• bashishtheme

项目历史

Bashish developed as a shell and terminal theming layer rather than a single prompt theme. Its README explains that application theming works by placing launchers in the path: the launcher applies a terminal theme, runs the real command with the original arguments and exit code, and restores the terminal afterward.

The 2.x ChangeLog shows a project concerned with terminal compatibility, startup speed, per-theme APIs, revision-control prompt indicators, and retro terminal themes. Version 2.2.2 explicitly notes a revival after bitrot, fixes for gnome-terminal behavior, new BashPrompt-derived themes, and the move to GitHub.

采用历史

The official news page records early packaging interest: Debian request-for-sponsorship work, a Gentoo ebuild attempt, and Pascal Bleser's SuSE Guru repositories. The SourceForge file feed shows released source archives and distro packages for 2.2.x in 2010.

Bashish occupied a niche before modern prompt frameworks became common: it offered themed prompts, titles, and per-application terminal appearance across many terminal emulators and shells.

使用方式

The README tells users to run `bashish` once to set up shell startup files, restart the shell, list themes with `bashish list`, and select themes with commands such as `bashish conda` or `bashish conda blue`.

The project supports prompt theming for common shells and terminal theming for terminal emulators including xterm, rxvt, rxvt-unicode, gnome-terminal, Linux console, mlterm, SGI xwsh, Terminal.app, PuTTY, Cygwin, screen, and others, with varying feature support.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

Bashish is package-nerd interesting because it captures a pre-Starship, pre-Powerlevel prompt era where terminal look-and-feel was managed by shell wrappers, startup-file edits, and terminal escape/control behavior rather than a single cross-shell binary.

It is also a small historical artifact of SourceForge distribution culture: tarballs, .deb, RPM, Slackware packages, Gentoo bugs, and distro repositories all appear in the official release trail.

时间线

• 2006: Official news notes SuSE/Gentoo packaging work, Debian RFS activity, and Bashish 2.0.5/2.0.6 updates.
• 2010: SourceForge publishes the 2.2.4 source archive and distro packages; the ChangeLog calls out startup speedups and package fixes.
• 2010: Version 2.2.2 ChangeLog says Bashish is now on GitHub at `github.com/arnognulf/bashish`.
• 2010s: Later ChangeLog entries continue terminal compatibility and theme fixes, including Mac OS X foreground/background handling.

Related projects

• The Bashish ChangeLog imports or adapts themes from the BashPrompt project. Its own README positions it alongside shell prompt customization and terminal emulator theming rather than as a general shell framework.

来源

• https://bashish.sourceforge.net/
• https://bashish.sourceforge.net/news.html
• https://github.com/arnognulf/bashish/blob/master/ChangeLog
• https://github.com/arnognulf/bashish/blob/master/README
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/bashish/files/bashish/2.2.4/ChangeLog/download