How to Jazz Up Your Bash Terminal — A Step By Step Guide With Pictures

rajaraodv
9 min readMar 2, 2018

In this blog I’ll go over steps to add Themes, Powerline, fonts, and powerline-gitstatus to make your regular Bash Terminal look beautiful and useful as shown in the picture above.

It turns out, if you are using Mac, you’ll need to jump through a lot of hoops to get this working as many instructions are for linux, or, is out of date, so I thought of blogging it, hopefully it help you.

Notes:

1. Follow the steps carefully as any mistake will cause a lot of headache. 😱

2. This is for MacOS and for regular bash in the Terminal.app. I’m not using ZSH or Hyper in this blog — I plan to write different blogs for them.

3. My Versions: Mac High Sierra; git version 2.14.3 (Apple Git-98); Python 2.7.10

OK, by default, when you have a new mac, your Terminal.app will look something like below. Let’s go ahead and add Themes, fonts, and so on.

Step 1 — Add A New Theme

The first obvious step is to enhance the Theme. Terminal doesn’t provide all the cool and fancy themes that you…

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