26 Dec
2021
26 Dec
'21
5:19 a.m.
On Friday, 24 December 2021 at 23:40:56 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
Here are examples of some of my prompts. It does use
two lines, but
the extra context is worth it to me:
<tytso@cwcc> {/home/tytso}
267% cd /usr/projects/e2fsprogs/base
That's actually surprisingly like mine, though I squeeze it into one
line. Like you, I find user, system and cwd important, but also the
tty. In addition I put a marker to help find prompts in long output,
so a typical prompt might be:
=== grog@bilbo (/dev/pts/27) ~/src 6 ->
That's generated with
PS1="\[ESC[34m\]=== \u@\h (`tty`) \[ESC[31m\]\w\[ESC[34m\] \#
->\[ESC[30m\]\[ESC[47m\] "
272% su
Password:
<tytso.root@cwcc> {/home/tytso}, level 2
That's interesting. How do you do that?
Greg
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