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Fancy and useful bash prompt
Is your old bash prompt a bit “outdated”? Ok, let’s give it some spice.
Open your
/etc/profile
and throw the following line in (no linebreak):
export PS1="\[\033[1;32m\][\$(date +%H:%M)]\[\033[0;36m\][\u@\[\033[0;31m\]\h:\[\033[1;34m\]\w]\[\033[0m\]”
Save, close the file and issue the following command:
source /etc/profile
What do you get? Well…something like this:
[18:05][root@moveaway:/home]
It’s:
[HH:MM][user@hostname:/current_dir]
Have a nice and colorful day!
