The cross-shell prompt for astronauts.

Compatibility First

Works on the most common shells on the most common operating systems. Use it everywhere!

Rust-Powered

Brings the best-in-class speed and safety of Rust, to make your prompt as quick and reliable as possible.

Customizable

Every little detail is customizable to your liking, to make this prompt as minimal or feature-rich as you'd like it to be.

Alternative shell designed for interactive use.

The most widespread system shell to date.

Bookmark directories inside your shell.

McFly replaces your default ctrl-r Bash history search with an intelligent search engine that takes into account your working directory and the context of recently executed commands. McFly's suggestions are prioritized in real time with a small neural network.

In a recent article, we talked about Gogo – a tool to create shortcuts for long paths in a Linux shell. Although gogo is a great way to bookmark your favorite directories inside a shell, however, it has one major limitation; it lacks an auto-completion feature.

Because of the above reason, we went all out to find a similar utility with auto-completion support – where the shell can prompt with suggestions of the available aliases (shortcuts to long and complicated paths) and luckily, after crawling through Github, we discovered Goto.

Goto is a shell utility to quickly navigate to aliased directories, with support for auto-completion. It comes with a nice auto-completion script so that once you press the tab key after the goto command or after typing a few charters of an existing alias, bash or zsh prompts with suggestions of the aliases or auto complete the name, respectively.

Goto also has additional options for unregistering an alias, expanding an alias’s value as well as cleaning up aliases of deleted directories. Note that goto’s auto-completion only works for aliases; it is separate from shell auto-completion for commands or filenames.

Xonsh is a Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt.

Xonsh is meant for the daily use of experts and novices alike.

Xonsh is significantly different from most other shells or shell tools.

Prompt-toolkit: advanced readline library, line-editing.

Xonsh integrates with Jupyter, an in-browser REPL, enabling the use of xonsh in jupyter notebooks.

Liquid Prompt gives you a nicely displayed prompt with useful information when you need it. It shows you what you need when you need it.

You will notice what changes when it changes, saving time and frustration. You can even use it with your favorite shell – Bash or zsh.

Recording a terminal session may be important in helping someone learn a process, sharing information in an understandable way, and also presenting a series of commands in a proper manner. Whatever the purpose, there are many times when copy-pasting text from the terminal won't be very helpful while capturing a video of the process is quite far-fetched and may not be always possible. In this quick guide, we will take a look at the easiest way to record and share a terminal session in .gif format.