Is your old bash prompt a bit “outdated”? Ok, let’s give it some spice.<\/p>\n
Open your<\/p>\n
and throw the following line in (no linebreak):<\/p>\n Save, close the file and issue the following command:<\/p>\n What do you get? Well…something like this:<\/p>\n It’s:<\/p>\n Have a nice and colorful day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is your old bash prompt a bit “outdated”?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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,31,62],"tags":[173,475,163,164,266],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-gnulinux","category-sysadmin","tag-bash","tag-gnulinux","tag-guide","tag-howto","tag-prompt","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\/etc\/profile
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nexport PS1=\"\\[\\033[1;32m\\][\\$(date +%H:%M)]\\[\\033[0;36m\\][\\u@\\[\\033[0;31m\\]\\h:\\[\\033[1;34m\\]\\w]\\[\\033[0m\\]\"
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nsource \/etc\/profile
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n[18:05]<\/span>[root@<\/span>moveaway:<\/span>\/home]<\/span><\/code><\/p>\n
\n[HH:MM][user@hostname:\/current_dir]
\n<\/code><\/p>\n