rpk profile prompt

Print a profile name formatted for a PS1 prompt.

This command prints ANSI-escaped text per your current profile’s prompt field. If the current profile does not have a prompt, this prints nothing. If the prompt is invalid, this exits 0 with no message. To validate the current prompt, use the --validate flag.

This command may introduce other % variables in the future. If you want to print a % directly, use %% to escape it.

  • To use this in zsh, be sure to add setopt PROMPT_SUBST to your .zshrc.

  • To edit your PS1, use something like PS1='$(rpk profile prompt)' in your shell rc file.

Format

The prompt field supports space or comma separated modifiers and a quoted string that is be modified. Inside the string, the variable %p or %n refers to the profile name. As a few examples:

prompt: hi-white, bg-red, bold, "[%p]"
prompt: hi-red  "PROD"
prompt: white, "dev-%n

If you want to have multiple formats, you can wrap each formatted section in parentheses.

prompt: ("--") (hi-white bg-red bold "[%p]")

Colors

All ANSI colors are supported, with names matching the color name: black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white.

The hi- prefix indicates a high-intensity color: hi-black, hi-red, for example. The bg- prefix modifies the background color: bg-black, bg-hi-red, for example.

Modifiers

Four modifiers are supported: "bold", "faint", "underline", and "invert".

Usage

rpk profile prompt [flags]

Flags

Value Type Description

-h, --help

-

Help for prompt.

--validate

-

Exit with an error message if the prompt is invalid.

--config

string

Redpanda or rpk config file; default search paths are /var/lib/redpanda/.config/rpk/rpk.yaml, $PWD/redpanda.yaml, and /etc/redpanda/redpanda.yaml.

-X, --config-opt

stringArray

Override rpk configuration settings. See rpk -X or execute rpk -X help for inline detail or rpk -X list for terser detail.

--profile

string

Profile to use. See rpk profile for more details.

-v, --verbose

-

Enable verbose logging.