A string of characters displayed by interactive shells to signal the shell is waiting a user input. The prompt can be used to display variables and data about the enviornment.
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change prompt formatting based on cwd
I use tcsh. I'd like to have my prompt formatting (coloring/highlighting) change based on what directory I'm in.
Namely, if I'm in one of "my" directories (my username in the full directory path is a ...
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Wrap command in the prompt
Is it possible to insert a separator after the command in a prompt? This is an example:
~/Desktop: ls -al
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total 80
drwx------+ 6 eddie staff 204B Apr 29 ...
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can someone fix my PS1 for bash
I seem to have too many colour escapes so it only works in some prompts - can someone please correct for me ?
PS1='\[\e[0:35m[\u@\e[0:33m\h\e[m \e[0:35m\w]\e[m \e[0:33m`git branch 2> /dev/null | ...
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Colorizing your terminal and shell environment?
I spend most of my time working in Unix environments and using Terminal emulators. I try to use color on the command-line, because color makes the output more useful and intuitive.
What are some good ...
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What process is running before I even get a prompt?
When I log in to a specific server I see the following:
Note that I get get Last login: ... information but no prompt. I hit Ctrl+C and only then do I get my prompt, thus proving that my username ...
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Prompt for confirmation for every command
I'm writing a pretty ad-hoc install script for some thing. No much control constructs, basically just a list of commands. I'd like the user to confirm each command before it gets executed. Is there a ...
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How to customize PS1 properly?
I customized my bash with this in my bashrc
export PS1="\e[0;36m\h\e[m \e[0;33m\w/\e[m \e[0;31m\n\$ →\e[m "
So I get something like this (with colors) :
Ahuri ~/Public/
$ →
But I am having ...
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bash prompt - long command circle back to same line after adding color
Note: I am using Putty and my TERM is set to XTERM.
I have added the color to my bash prompt as
PS1="\[\033[0;32m\]\d \t \u\e[1;33m@\H /\W $ \[\033[1;37m\]"
just to simplify PS1 in English -
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Awesome symbols and characters in a bash prompt
I just ran across a screenshot of someone's terminal:
Is there a list of all of the characters which can be used in a Bash prompt, or can someone get me the character for the star and the right ...
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Displaying ~ for $HOME in zsh prompt
I have my prompt set to the following:
PROMPT=%F{reset}[%F{blue}%2/%F{reset}]
which displays two parent directories as
[foo/bar]
However, when I'm in $HOME or one directory deep in $HOME, I'd ...
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Bash Command (History) Number In PS1
I am a noob in bash to be honest. I have Googled around and cannot find an answer to this:
history lists previous commands and their number e.g.
$ history
286 clear
I want to be able to see the ...
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How to script /etc/issue?
I would like to pipe my tty number through figlet (ASCII generator) for the /etc/issue (message shown before login). Obviously this means I can't just update it from /etc/rc.local.
On my system ...
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Prompt “-bash-3.2$” vs. “bash-3.2$” in SunOS 5.10
When I log into a server running SunOS 5.10, my prompt initially is "-bash-3.2$"
Then when I run the following commands, I can see that the prompt is slightly different after typing bash (it no ...
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What are special prompt symbols for busybox's sh support?
I want to setup a time prompt on PS1.
But, there is no document about what are symbols the busybox support.
Is there any one know? Here are all which I knew.
PS1='\u@\h: \w \$'
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Proper place to put shell prompt(PS1) when use sh/bash/zsh together
I'm using dash(sh) or bash or zsh. If possible, I would prefer to put in common place.
I want to put proper PS1 settings when I interactive with shell, so these situation should be considered
login ...
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Bash $PROMPT_COMMAND messing up scroll history display
I set up a PROMPT_COMMAND to display the current branch while I'm in a git repo.
The relevant part of my .bashrc is:
export PS1=" \[\033[34m\]\$\[\033[0m\] "
export ...
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How to make bash put prompt on a new line after cat command?
What I get:
host:~ user$ cat example.txt
some texthost:~ stas$
What I want to get:
host:~ user$ cat example.txt
some text
host:~ stas$
Is there a way I can make cat behave like this?
I'm using ...
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Is there any way to test out PS1 Bash Prompts before committing them?
I'd like to mess with my Bash prompt, but I'd like to do so in a way that doesn't corrupt my already extant one. I could just comment it out, but is there a way to test it either with an online tool ...
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Bash prompt not recognizing Unicode escapes
I'm trying to customize my Bash prompt with Unicode characters and I'm having a bit of trouble. If I try to include a Unicode character like this:
$ echo ☢ | hexdump -C
00000000 e2 98 a2 0a ...
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Coloring shell command and output differrently [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Customizing bash shell: Bold/color the command
bash $ cat what-i-want
"I want the output be in a different color."
I'd like my commands stand out among the output, ...
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How to set up `screen` to modify the window title and xterm-window title?
I'd like to have my current $PS1 prompt (\u@\h:\w$(__git_ps1 "(%s)")\$ plus some coloring) to be also used as screen's window title (in the hardline) and as the xterm window title. How can this be ...
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Highlight path separators in PS1
I want to do something like this in Bash:
how to format the path in a zsh prompt?
But everything I try results in the PWD being fixed to the first directory I start my terminal in. Strangely I've ...
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Bash prompt that won't clobber long commands
I'm trying to set up a bash prompt for - hostname(screen#):directory$ which is coloured green if the last command completed successfully, red if not. This is what I have so far, which actually does ...
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Why does this PS1 value cause unexpected behaviour? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is my bash prompt getting bugged when I browse the history?
I have set my PS1 variable in .bashrc to be the following:
PS1='\e[35m[\W]:\e[0m '
It achieved what it ...
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bash prompt with abbreviated current director including dot files?
I have the following in my .bash_profile (from a similar question here:
PROMPT_COMMAND='pwd2=$(sed "s:\([^/]\)[^/]*/:\1/:g" <<<$PWD)'
PS1='\u@\h:$pwd2\$ '
However, if the current directory ...
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busybox ash PS1 not expanding
I am trying to setup busybox's ash on an embedded system to support expanding the PS1 prompt statement. I have it currently set as
PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
However, all that is displayed is literally ...
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Problems changing PS1 to use special character
I'm trying to get my zsh to look something like this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1068202#p1068202.
Whenever I print the └───╼ part of the PS1 to my terminal (or in the .zshrc for ...
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Change Korn prompt to show shorter path for working directory
I have changed my .kshrc to show my prompt as follows:
511 /export/home/students/cninja $ where 511 is the command number and ../students/cninja is the current working directory.
Is it possible to ...
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Why sudo timestamp is not updated when NOPASSWD is set?
I've set up sudo not to prompt for password by editing the sudoers file:
myuser ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
And it works fine, running sudo with no password prompting. But when entering sudo -v I ...
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zsh prompt not escaped properly
This is my current prompt definition:
PROMPT='%(?..%F{red}%?%f:)%F{blue}%n%f:%F{green}%{${PWD/#$HOME/~}%} %(!.%F{red}.%f)%# %f'
The cursor sometimes starts one character behind the actual prompt, ...
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How to set the command(s) that get run before every single prompt?
I used to know this but I forgot: I want to execute a command or a couple of commands before every single prompt. When I am in our PROD box, I want a big fat reminder above every prompt that says * ...
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Why does newgrp change my PS1 and how to prevent it?
I have a customized PS1 to show several parameters. When I switch to a different group using newgrp, it switched my PS1 to default ($) and that is annoying. The default remains even when I switch ...
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How to change the prompt in Linux?
The default prompt will be
root@monu dev]#
Can we change the "root@monu" part and give it a desired name?
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Change the PS1 color based on the background color?
I learned that I can change the format of PS1, especially the color of the string. Then, is it possible to change the color based on the background color of the shell? Or, how can I detect the ...
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How to put “glue” CWD (etc.) to part of the screen instead of putting into PS1?
I suspect there’s some terminology for this question that I’m not aware of. It’s hard to check if a question has already been answered if one doesn’t know the proper vocabulary. So, sorry if this is ...
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Colors not rendered correctly in oh-my-zsh themes
I'm trying to use colors in oh-my-zsh themes. It works fine on my home computer (ubuntu), but in a work computer (Scientific Linux i.e. Enterprise linux) the prompt colors are actually spelled out. ...
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assigning a multiline variable (tcsh prompt) to another
For tcsh, I have a prompt that is multiline:
set prompt = "%/\\
%n@%m[%h]% "
This shows the cwd on one line and then the user/host on second line. However, with this, I cannot make a copy of that:
...
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New bash prompt causing issues
I changed my bash prompt to this:
PS1="\[\033[1;31m[\[\033[1;33m\$(date +%H:%M)\[\033[1;31m] \u:\[\033[1;32m\W\[\033[1;37m\$\[\033[0m\] "
Sorry for the long line, it is mostly due to colors. ...
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why does it take long for the bash prompt to return on high system load [closed]
When my server experiences high load and I run a command, there is a long delay after the command has finished before I get the prompt again. Any idea what is causing this?
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Is it possible to know when you're at the first bash prompt of a terminal?
This is sort of a contiunation of my last question: printing saving the last bash input command
Now I want to know if it's possible to know when you're at the first bash prompt of a terminal. So I'm ...
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Modify prompt based on value
Suppose I have an environment variable defined in .bash_profile like this:
PS1='\[\e[31;1m\][\u@\h \T \w] \[\e[0m\]'
This variable makes my Linux prompt show certain information, like thes:
...
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Possible to configure Login TTY over Audio device (Morse code or similar)?
One of the most miserable aspects of my day job is the need to occasionally investigate problems with machines scattered in remote locations all over the world that don't have network access to the ...
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Can I configure bash to execute “clear” before every command typed in the console?
I would like to configure bash to execute clear command every time I type some command in the terminal (before executing my command). How can I do that?
I'm using Debian Linux.
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When a command is over half the terminal size it breaks
Whenever I type in a bash command longer than about half the width of the shell window I'm in, the command breaks like it would if I filled the whole screen
3rd command in image - typed a few xs ...
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zsh delete part of the prompt
When I use reverse history search, then it "eats" a part of my prompt. Sometimes when I type a long command which spans to multi lines, my prompt is also lost.
Have anyone experience this situation? ...
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history list in bash always truncated to 5000 lines at new login
Similar to the 5000 line limitation problem when first thing in .bashrc I have
export HISTSIZE=10001
and
export HISTFILESIZE=$HISTSIZE
My users do not have ~/.inputrc files and the system-wide ...
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Colored Prompt in KornShell
According to this StackOverflow post, it is possible have a colored prompt in KornShell. I have not been able to figure out how to do this. I am able to use color:
echo -e "\033[34mLinux\033[00m"
...
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Prompting for input in post-install script in dpkg
I am writing a debian package and need to prompt the user for some textual details(default password, etc), as well as some one-of-many choices("Pick one of the following: foo, bar"). Will shell ...
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Reevaluate the prompt expression each time a prompt is displayed in zsh
I'm adjusting my zsh prompt, based upon the dallas theme and the dstufft theme from oh-my-zsh. I love how dallas has various sections of the prompt contained in variables, which makes it much easier ...
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executing if-statement from command prompt
In bash I can do the following:
if [ -f /tmp/test.txt ]; then echo "true"; fi
However, if I add sudo in front, it doesn't work anymore:
sudo if [ -f /tmp/test.txt ]; then echo "true"; fi
-bash: ...
