LQ Poll: What is your favorite Linux Prompt?

verndog · 03-19-2021, 10:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cjspizz

Couldn't be less helpful. Thanks.

The topic says, What is your favorite Linux Prompt? Not how to create your favorite Linux Prompt.

igadoter · 03-20-2021, 02:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scasey

Also, changes to a user’s .bashrc are not immediate...you’ll need to log out and back in to see them...or source the file:

Partially true. To play with prompt just export PS1

Code:

$ export PS1="your AI computer hates you (lo)ser "

scasey · 03-20-2021, 04:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by igadoter

Partially true. To play with prompt just export PS1

Code:

$ export PS1="your AI computer hates you (lo)ser "

Point taken...but I’ve always found it easier to just source the login scripts when tweaking them. Still, good advice.

cjspizz · 03-20-2021, 08:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by verndog

The topic says, What is your favorite Linux Prompt? Not how to create your favorite Linux Prompt.

Yes, I can see that. I didn't think it was going off topic to simply ask how people make a separate prompt for root. I apologize to all for such an egregious violation of the forum rules.

DavidMcCann · 03-20-2021, 11:58 AM

PCLinuxOS defaults to

Code:

PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "

Since I know my own name, don't care what the computer is called, don't know what the brackets are for, and can tell root use from things turning red, I prefer

Code:

PS1="\W \$ "

rnturn · 03-21-2021, 12:50 PM

For non-root accounts:

Code:

your-name-here@host:last-element-of-pwd $

in cyan.

For root:

Code:

root@host:last-element-of-pwd #

in red.

On one project, the lead had me set up a prompt for all users that had a red background and blinked whenever the developers had gotten sloppy and were getting close to filling up the test filesystems on the NAS. (It was really annoying but it got the point across. :^D )

ArfaSmif · 04-01-2021, 05:27 PM

I like

echo $PS1

giving me

[\w]$

skbranch3 · 04-01-2021, 06:02 PM

login name host and folder, green for normal user, red for root and as of just now PROMPT_DIRTRIM=3. Also have the slackware line art in my .bashrc.

tekra · 04-01-2021, 07:30 PM

qtm:~># echo $PS1
\[\e[1;31m\]\h:\[\e[1;33m\]\W\[\e[1;36m\]>\$ \[\e[0;32m\]
qtm:~># cd /work/Electronics/Oscilloscopes
qtm:Oscilloscopes>#

SteveG_0001 · 04-01-2021, 07:53 PM

PS1="> "
No colours. Who can read red or blue or purple on black? Or yellow on white?

Fjor · 04-01-2021, 07:59 PM

I work with a lot of servers daily and mainly at the Bash prompt. I have used this two line prompt for years:

Code:

export PS1="\t - \d - Dir: \w\n\u@\h\$ "

resulting in something like

Code:

18:50:21 - Thu Apr 01 - Dir: /current/directory
user@someserver#

This way the typing always start in the same column independent of the current path length, I do not lose track of time so easily and could use it to estimate time of processing commands when I don't want the precision of the time built-in.

apink · 04-01-2021, 08:16 PM

look@theEmperorsNewClothe$

jhumphrey · 04-01-2021, 09:15 PM

My favorites are `$` and `%`
Having the time is also handy.
Currently my terminal prompt on one OS is

Code:

\[\e[42m\e[37m\][\A]\[\e[0m\] \[\e[0m\e[33m\]\u\[\e[0m\]@\[\e[36m\]\h\[\e[32m\]:\j\[\e[0m\]\$

And my PS2 is

Code:

\e[41m\e[32m?\e[37m>

My all-time favorite prompts though are ':' and '' Colon because I am in vi, and nothing because I am in ed(1) (Okay, I know it is * on some setups.)

This results in something like

Code:

[12:27] ghenghis@khan:0$

But with colors

DavidAames · 04-01-2021, 10:09 PM

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ echo Hello World. I'm $0
Hello World. I'm zsh

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$

grizzlysmit · 04-01-2021, 10:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeremy

The official LQ poll series continues. This time we want to know: What is your favorite Linux Prompt?

--jeremy

liquidprompt https://github.com/nojhan/liquidprompt https://liquidprompt.readthedocs.io/en/stable/