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So how do you setup, change and pimp out Linux / UNIX shell prompt? Most of us work with a shell prompt. By default most Linux distro displays hostname and current working directory. You can easily customize your prompt to display information important to you. You change look and feel by adding colors. In this small howto I will explain howto setup:a] Howto customizing a bash shell to get a good looking promptb] Configure the appearance of the terminal.c] Apply themes using bashishd] Howto pimp out your shell prompt Prompt is control via a special shell variable. You need to set PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4 variable. If set, the value is executed as a command prior to issuing each primary prompt.
How do I display current prompt setting? Simply use echo command, enter:$ echo $PS1Output: \\u@\h \\W]\\$ How do I modify or change the prompt? | |
2015-10-15 18:53:16 | gstlouis |
reference: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-unix-bash-shell-setup-prompt.html Modifying the prompt is easy task. Just assign a new value to PS1 and hit enter key: touch me : So when executing interactively, bash displays the primary prompt PS1 when it is ready to read a command, and the secondary prompt PS2 when it needs more input to complete a command. Bash allows these prompt strings to be customized by inserting a number of backslash-escaped special characters that are decoded as follows:
Let us try to set the prompt so that it can display today’d date and hostname: Sat Jun 02 server $ Now setup prompt to display date/time, hostname and current directory: [Sat Jun 02 14:24:12 vivek@server:~ ] $ How do I add colors to my prompt? You can change the color of your shell prompt to impress your friend or to make your own life quite easy while working at command prompt. Putting it all together Let us say when you login as root/superuser, you want to get visual confirmation using red color prompt. To distinguish between superuser and normal user you use last character in the prompt, if it changes from $ to #, you have superuser privileges. So let us set your prompt color to RED when you login as root, otherwise display normal prompt. Open /etc/bashrc (Redhat and friends) / or /etc/bash.bashrc (Debian/Ubuntu) or /etc/bash.bashrc.local (Suse and others) file and append following code: # If id command returns zero, you’ve root access. if [ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]; then # you are root, set red colour prompt PS1="\[$(tput setaf 1)\]\u@\h:\w #\[$(tput sgr0)\]" else # normal PS1="[\u@\h:\w] $" fi Close and save the file. My firepower prompt Check this out: You can also create complex themes for your bash shell using bashish. Bashish is a theme enviroment for text terminals. It can change colors, font, transparency and background image on a per-application basis. Additionally Bashish supports prompt changing on common shells such as bash, zsh and tcsh. Install bashish using rpm or apt-get command: | gstlouis |
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