Bash.

Bash

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Bash 5.3 on Linux, the same shell session in its stock colours and in HackerBlue: the prompt, ls, grep and the demo project's own man page. Captured from a real Bash run with stand-in user and host names, drawn with the terminal's own colours in each look.

Bash belongs to its owner; Hacker Blue is not affiliated with or endorsed by it.

HackerBlue for Bash installs the way Bash has always been meant to be coloured: your .bashrc gains one marked line that loads the theme file and a re-coloured dircolors table from HackerBlue's config folder, and with them every colour hook Bash already reads speaks the same palette. LS_COLORS gets the full table, so ls shows directories, symlinks, executables, archives, media and documents in deep-sea blues; GREP_COLORS colours grep's matches and the file names and line numbers beside them; the LESS_TERMCAP variables give man pages blue headings, blue underline and a blue highlighted status bar, both while reading and while scrolling; and readline's colored-stats and colored-completion-prefix bring the same colours to tab completion's list and prefix.

The prompt keeps the shape Bash builds out of the box, user and host and working folder in that order: user and host in the palette's blues, the folder in pale steel, and one marker that shows cyan after a command succeeded and red after it failed, before the prompt character itself. If bash-completion's git support is loaded, it draws the branch after the folder. What it does not change: your terminal's background and sixteen colours stay the terminal's own, fonts and window stay as they are, and every line you wrote in .bashrc yourself still runs unaltered. When Starship is already initialised in the shell, it keeps drawing the prompt while the rest of the theme still applies.

Colours arrive as true colour when COLORTERM says the terminal supports it, and as the closest 256-colour values otherwise, so the theme reads well in plain, modest terminals. It was made and tested with Bash 5.3 on Linux.

• Purchase One-time

  One payment for HackerBlue for Bash. There is no subscription and nothing renews.

• Updates Included

  Updates Hacker Blue publishes for this theme come with the licence at no extra charge; a version change never asks you to pay again.

• Devices 3 active

  The licence covers up to three personal devices active at the same time, and you can deactivate one from your account page.

• Delivery HackerBlue CLI

  The CLI downloads and installs the theme on an authorised device.

The purchase runs on Whop, and Whop shows the price, currency and taxes before you pay. Buying ties the licence to a Hacker Blue account, which you use with Google or an email address and a password.

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$2.99 for Bash, less per theme when you pick more.

One-time payment. Limited-time offerAll 32 themes for $29.99 $92.69 if bought singly$92.69Ends 15 November 2026

HackerBlue Complete is the other one-time product: it includes the Bash theme today and the themes added to Complete later, under the same kind of licence. Pricing compares the two.

Each release has its own version. Versions follow semantic versioning:

• Major: the look changes noticeably.
• Minor: support for new parts of the app.
• Patch: fixes.

The newest release is first.

1. 1.0.125 October 2026

   Man page headings and underlined text now use the theme by default. Pager status text is easier to read, and colours display correctly on more terminals.

2. 1.0.024 October 2026

   First release.