Bash Syntax Colouring

bash syntax-highlighting

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Real time syntax coloring is a lot of work, especially with shells whose syntax is trickier than fish's. Only fish has it out of the box.

Zsh has syntax coloring if you install the zsh-syntax-highlighting add-on.

I'm not aware of any effort to do this with bash.

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MadTux

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

MadTux over 1 year

I tried the fish shell, and love the fact that it does syntax colouring in the shell itself:

Is there some way to do this in bash?
- Admin over 10 years
  
  I think you have to actually modify the Bash code in order to do that.
- Admin over 3 years
  
  There is essentially the same question at superuser.com/q/304211/980046
Karlson over 10 years

The question is more generic then just prompting.
MadTux over 10 years

I have already customized the heck out of $PS1 and $PS2 ;)
joharr about 4 years

You've answered a different question, even if well.
SuperSandro2000 over 2 years

ble.sh is the only thing I know that comes close to this.