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Getting Rid of Plain Bash Prompts
Topic: Desktop Posted:2003-12-13
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Are you tired of looking at an ugly bash prompt like this?:

-bash-2.05b$

Well, if you add this line to your .bash_profile:

export PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h \[\033[01;34m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\]'

You will get a red hostname (up to the first .) and a blue current working directory:

servername directory $

For more info, see the prompting section of the BASH manpage.

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