{"id":8596,"date":"2005-02-06T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-06T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/06\/bash-prompts\/"},"modified":"2005-04-17T07:53:23","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T04:53:23","slug":"bash-prompts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/06\/bash-prompts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bash prompts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Normal<\/a>\"root<\/a>Today I once again did something really stupid while being logged in as root. I already had my root and normal user bash prompts colored differently, but it turns out that the difference was not obvious enough. So, I decided to recolor the prompts a little bit more vividly.<\/p>\n

It took me few minutes to refresh my memory with Bash Prompt HOWTO<\/a>. After that I came up with this snippet in .bashrc<\/code> of the normal user (left screenshot):<\/p>\n

\r\n# Cyan on blue time and Yellow on blue user@host dir\r\nexport PS1=\"\\n\\[\\033[44;1;36m\\][\\$(date +%H:%M)]\\[\\033[44;1;33m\\][\\u@\\h \\W]\\[\\033[0m\\]$ \"\r\nexport PS2=\"\\[\\033[44;1;36m\\][\\$(date +%H:%M)]\\[\\033[44;1;33m\\][\\u@\\h \\W]\\[\\033[0m\\]> \"\r\n<\/pre>\n
Root’s prompt (right screenshot) was a bliss after that:<\/p>\n
\r\n# Cyan on red time and yellow on red username@host dir\r\nexport PS1=\"\\n\\[\\033[41;1;36m\\][\\$(date +%H:%M)]\\[\\033[41;1;33m\\][\\u@\\h \\W]\\[\\033[0m\\]# \"\r\nexport PS2=\"\\[\\033[41;1;36m\\][\\$(date +%H:%M)]\\[\\033[41;1;33m\\][\\u@\\h \\W]\\[\\033[0m\\]> \"\r\n<\/pre>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
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