Questions tagged [prompt]
A string of characters displayed by interactive shells to signal the shell is waiting a user input.
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Configure zsh prompt to show only first 2 letters of current directory
I would like to display only the first two letters of the current directory.
I tried
PROMPT="%1d %# "
which displays the current directory as directory1. But taking a subset of the ...
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Creating a custom tilde-like directory?
A bit of backstory:
For a while now i've just been putting my personal files & directories in the user home directory. However something that has always annoyed be about this is that they get ...
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(In starship) How do I hide the right prompt if the shell is small?
I have 3 monitors, but one is tiny. My terminal is on the tiny monitor, and starship is configured for a massive right prompt. Can I hide this based on terminal size? I'm aware that the right prompt ...
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prompt in git hook?
I'm trying to implement an option to skip a pre-commit hook (which will be considered pass and perform the commit) in a pre-commit hook.
Everything is running fine except the prompt which reads an ...
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Kitty shortcut to escape prompt
Inspired by this answer I have the following mapping in my kitty.conf to escape a stuck command quickly:
map ctrl+shift+z send_text normal \x1akill -9 %%\r
But for commands which prompt the user such ...
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zsh PROMPT coloring doesn't work inside of tmux
I have the following line in my .zshrc:
export PROMPT="%n@%K{9}%m%k:%~# "
It works if I connect directly
But doesn't work inside tmux
How to fix?
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Understand PS1 environment variable
On Stackoverflow, I just saw a question concerning the PS1 environment variable, which is responsible for the Linux terminal prompt.
My prompt looks as follows:
username@PORT-usr:/dir
username is the ...
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How do I fix "\!" output ("-bash: !: command not found" error) from __git_ps1 in prompt?
I've noticed that I sometimes get spurious \! output in my bash prompt. (In iTerm on macOS Ventura. I can also reproduce in Terminal.app.)
I can reproduce it by holding down or repeatedly pressing the ...
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sudo: timed out reading password [duplicate]
Today I've run into a strange monologue of sudo:
[sudo] password for me:
sudo: timed out reading password
sudo: a password is required
[sudo] password for me:
sudo: timed out reading password
sudo: ...
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ANSI escape sequences in PS1 cause incorrect length calculation [duplicate]
I have a PS1 set up in my .zshrc which includes multiple ANSI escape sequences. An equivalent definition works nicely in Bash, but in Zsh (v5.8.1) it seemingly causes the shell to calculate the width ...
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Is it possible to make bash stop blinking text?
I've been playing around with bash a bit and was wondering if it is possible to make blinking text stop if I execute another command. E.g. echo -e '\033[5mEXAMPLE\033[0m' will output a blinking ...
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My fish prompt gets messed up when I add more set_color
I've been trying to make a custom fish prompt, but there's one problem that I can't seem to figure out how to fix.
I got this to work, but it's not exactly what I want, as I want the ash@cat-box to be ...
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Why does my bash script answer prompt without my asking?
I want to uninstall packages and reinstall them in user mode. I have a manually edited list made with flatpak list, where the first word of the line is the complete name of the package.
I can make a ...
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oh-my-zsh prompt substitution
I'm modifying the intika2 theme in oh-my-zsh to add the current pyenv setting to my prompt. OMZ includes a pyenv_prompt_info command & I added it to the LEFTINFOS variable in the intika2 theme to ...
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$PS1 vs $PROMPT_COMMAND in bash?
I'd like to customize my shell's prompt. What are the differences between $PS1 and $PROMPT_COMMAND, and what variable should I use? Some historic conventions (of past shells/posix) to find out what is ...
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How do I get a new command line to appear in terminal
What is the keyboard shortcut for getting another prompt
ari@ari-virutal-machine:
to appear:
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Confused about bash prompt meaning
I found out that in bash, the $PS1 variable can be modified to change the prompt. The problem is that I'm having some trouble trying to understand the long string of codes that I was given.
I did:
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[?2004l characters when login through ssh in debian
I have recently modified the $PS1 environment variable in /etc/bash.bashrc in Debian. To make those changes in my current session, I thought that I could restart bash.bashrc with:
. /etc/bash.bashrc
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Custom Shell Prompt for Root per sudo/su user
Is it possible to have multiple users using a root shell but with different prompts on the BASH shell for each session/user? We have some training environments with our users using su/sudo to get to a ...
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PROMPT_COMMAND output in shell script using piping LINUX
I want to make a shell script that shows the available data on my root directory and shows it continuously after each new command in the prompt by using PROMPT_COMMAND in the shell script. However, I ...
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Unable to get terminal prompt when executing script via ssh
I have the below script that works fine when run locally
cat /tmp/input.sh
echo -n ">> "
read env
exit;
I get the command prompt when i ...
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Getting the prompt on Linux [duplicate]
Real noob question:
Am trying to search for a file on Linux am using- systemctl to list all the files but after this list has finished displaying my prompt does not return, so am unable to search for ...
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How do you get your prompt back after executing a command like systemctl on linux? [duplicate]
Real noob question:
I was running a script on Linux- systemctl and I want to search for a specific file but before I can type in the new code | grep 'filenames I need to get the prompt back but am ...
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Bash: interactively enter and save large html block into a variable from the terminal
This is simple
#!/bin/bash
echo "What is your name?"
read name
echo "Your name is: $name"
But what if I don't want to treat a name but a large HTML code block with nested tags and ...
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Get cursor location in tty without reading from stdin (need help with redirections)
I have written a fancy custom bash prompt, and it works really well; I just have an issue when trying to run multiple commands separated by newlines. (I apologise for the length, but I hope my issue ...
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How to hide email from shell prompt with starship
Currently, my terminal looks like this:
~ on ☁️ [email protected] took 15s
>
I want to hide the email from the view such that the terminal view is just
~ took 15s
>
How do I go about doing ...
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Customize bash prompt without plugins
I am customizing my bash prompt in order to make it look a little bit fancier. Here is what I did (in the ~/.bashrc file, Ubuntu 20.04).
# Customizing prompt
t1_bg="\[$(tput setab 31)\]"
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How to convert this bash prompt to work in zsh terminal?
I am trying to get colored text in zsh, and I like the color options given in this bash command PS1='\[\033[1;36m\]\u\[\033[1;31m\]@\[\033[1;32m\]\h:\[\033[1;35m\]\w\[\033[1;31m\]\$\[\033[0m\]. ...
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Setting up a name in the terminal Linux
My question is pretty silly, but could not find nothing on the internet that explained me how. The thing is that I want to have the name displayed in the terminal as: Server mpi@raspberry: ... $ but ...
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How to change Linux terminal prompt
I've been using Terminator as my terminal but after reconfiguring my display manager to 'Lightdm' after 'gdm3' crashed while installing updates, I messed something up, not with terminal, using the GUI ...
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How to display a prompt and prevent execution against basic but dangerous commands like mv or rm
Objective
Whenever I use mv (or commands of similar nature) I want my shell to prompt me something like "Hey, you used mv. Sorry but do it again using mv -i".
I'd like to know the reasonable ...
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opening default path for root user
It may be trivial what I say, but I need to change the default opening path that OH My ZSH has. since no matter where I preposition myself in a file path (example: /home/username/Downloads/owt), when ...
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String manipulation with backslash-escaped special character in bash prompting
I would like my bash prompt to show \etc\defaults using PS1 when I am in /etc/defaults.
I have tried these two methods
PS1="$(echo "\w" | sed 's/\//\\/g')"
PS1="$(tmp="\w&...
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Is it possible to output LaTeX in a shell prompt?
There are several "lambda" prompts (i.e., shell prompts which use the $\lambda$ symbol). While these look nice in theory, many fonts do not use the lambda symbol that I like: $\lambdaup$. I'...
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Ansible: How to verify ansible_become_user, and if missing prompt for user input (multiple hosts)
I use multiple hosts and I want to prompt user to provide sudo username and password if ansible_become_user and ansible_become_password is not set in the inventory or playbook
I use following:
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How to prevent child process to interfere with bash prompt?
The application in question is DaVinci Resolve. I start it from terminal. And when I close it, the message "Socket Disconnected" from the app is written to the terminal output. Then the bash ...
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Why is the prompt shown at the top of the terminal, rather than at the bottom?
Why am I asking this?
As you can guess, it's mostly for curiosity. But why did the curiosity spring up in my mind?
Well, there's been a moment when I noticed that I was not happy that after I'd run ...
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zsh: check whether I am currently inside my git repository (git check-ignore)
In my .zshrc, I am using following git command (from zsh prompt: check whether inside git repository and not being ignored by git) to check whether I am inside a git repository, so that I can change ...
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How do I include the current Anaconda env in my prompt?
I found this post that perfectly describes the problem I'm having. The only difference is that I'm using zsh. When I escape the '$' as @filbranden described, it just prints the $(basename $...
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Zsh tab completion moves command to the right by several spaces after modifying PROMPT in .zshrc
I recently wrote a function called zuperPrompt that prints out a nice looking prompt and I've set my PROMPT variable in my .zshrc to call that function like so:
setopt PROMPT_SUBST
PROMPT='$(...
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Display branch name in $PS1 on ksh88
I want to display my current git branch in the prompt in ksh88.
I'm working on a legacy project, when the backend run on IBM's AIX, with a mandatory ksh88 shell. I can switch to say, bash, for some ...
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Zsh: how do I remove block prefixes when writing multi-line statements in interactive mode?
When I write multi-line statements in interactive mode in Zsh, it will prefix my statements with the block type I'm in like so:
% for i in $(seq 3); do
for> echo $i
for> done
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Automatic SSH prompt input
I'm trying to copy a bunch of RSA keys to multiple servers for a specific user.
Whenever I issue the ssh-copy-id command it asks me to confirm by typing "yes", then asks me for the password.
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Equivalent of PSReadLine for bash
For my Windows Terminal using Powershell I have the plugin PSReadline which gives me some pretty handy features. For instance a navigatable list view of my history when I start typing. So if I type cd ...
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Repeat char n times in zsh prompt
I'm working on a custom ZSH prompt and I want to repeat a char n times in a string (such as spaces for padding). This string is printed with print -rP (the -r flag ignores echo escape conventions and ...
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Color escape codes showing up instead of colors in PS1 prompt [duplicate]
I'm trying to set up my prompt to conditionally display whether I am in a git repo, and if so, to display the branch. And I want it color coded, so I have it use some color escape sequences to make it ...
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Displaying icons for directories in zsh prompt
This is, roughly, my left prompt for zsh:
# Libraries
autoload -Uz colors && colors
# User color
if [ "$(whoami)" = "root" ]; then
COLOR="red"
elif [ "$(...
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Conditional zstyle format (color) for git branch name in zsh prompt (using prezto)
I am switching to zsh from bash and one thing that I'm used to is having the git branch name in my prompt coloured to reflect whether the branch is clean or not. So if my branch is main and it's clean,...
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bash prompt doesn't re-draw properly on resizing window
Basically I have a bottom bar that always shows me the current directory on the left and on the right side the git branch. I tried to use powerline, but it only works by having a bar above the prompt, ...
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Is it possible to use the escape codes used in shell prompts elsewhere, such as with echo?
Example:
When I run
echo -e "\[\033[;33m\][\t \u (\#th) | \w]$\[\033[0m\]"
the printed response is
\[\][ \u (\#th) | \w]$\[\]
where everything after the first \[ and before the last \] ...
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