features/src/common-utils

Common Utilities (common-utils)

Installs a set of common command line utilities, Oh My Zsh!, and sets up a non-root user.

Example Usage

"features": {
    "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/common-utils:2": {}
}

Options

Options Id	Description	Type	Default Value
installZsh	Install ZSH?	boolean	true
configureZshAsDefaultShell	Change default shell to ZSH?	boolean	false
installOhMyZsh	Install Oh My Zsh!?	boolean	true
upgradePackages	Upgrade OS packages?	boolean	true
username	Enter name of a non-root user to configure or none to skip	string	automatic
userUid	Enter UID for non-root user	string	automatic
userGid	Enter GID for non-root user	string	automatic
nonFreePackages	Add packages from non-free Debian repository? (Debian only)	boolean	false

OS Support

This Feature should work on recent versions of Debian/Ubuntu, RedHat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, RockyLinux, and Alpine Linux.

Customizing the command prompt

By default, this script provides a custom command prompt that includes information about the git repository for the current folder. However, with certain large repositories, this can result in a slow command prompt due to the performance of needed git operations.

For performance reasons, a "dirty" indicator that tells you whether or not there are uncommitted changes is disabled by default. You can opt to turn this on for smaller repositories by entering the following in a terminal or adding it to your postCreateCommand:

git config devcontainers-theme.show-dirty 1

To completely disable the git portion of the prompt for the current folder's repository, you can use this configuration setting instead:

git config devcontainers-theme.hide-status 1

For zsh, the default theme is a standard Oh My Zsh! theme. You may pick a different one by modifying the ZSH_THEME variable in ~/.zshrc.

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