# Install bashish with Homebrew, MacPorts Theme environment for text terminals. Version 2.2.4 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:bashish ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install bashish ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install bashish ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/bashish/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:bashish - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 2.2.4 - **Source summary:** Theme environment for text terminals - **Homepage:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** GPL-2.0-or-later - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-07-09T07:20:21+00:00 ## Executables - bashish (cli) - bashishtheme (cli) - bashish (alias) - bashishtheme (alias) ## Dependencies - dialog ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on all ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-09 - Package-manager version: 2.2.4 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://bashish.sourceforge.net/ - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Project history and usage Bashish is a terminal theme environment from the SourceForge-era desktop customization world. Its official site describes it as software that changes terminal colors, fonts, transparency, background images, and prompts for shells such as bash, zsh, and tcsh. ### Project history 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. ### Adoption history 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. ### How it is used 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. ### Why package nerds care 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. ### Timeline - 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. ### Sources - - - - - ## Security Notes narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** bashish - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - MacPorts - bashish: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/bashish/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Related links - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Homebrew utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew-utility-packages/) - Matched Homebrew package provider. - [dialog](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dialog/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [hstr](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/hstr/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: bash, cli, shell, system. - [murex](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/murex/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, shell, system, terminal. - [nsh](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/nsh/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, shell, system, terminal. - [nushell](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/nushell/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, shell, system, terminal. - [thefuck](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/thefuck/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, shell, system, terminal. - [bash](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/bash/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, shell, system. - [brush](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/brush/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, shell, system. - [dash-shell](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dash-shell/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, shell, system. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/bashish.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/bashish.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph