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Getting Rid of Plain Bash Prompts

/ September 29, 2016 — Desktop

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    Are you tired of looking at an ugly bash prompt like this?:

    -bash-2.05b$

    Well, if you add this line to your .bash_profile:

    export PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h \[\033[01;34m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\]'

    You will get a red hostname (up to the first .) and a blue current working directory:

    servername directory $

    For more info, see the prompting section of the BASH manpage.

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