Best Bash Prompt Code

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• Bruce Member

  April 2014

  nice

  I've grown used to root@vps1 time for a change though
• BotoX Member

  April 2014

  

  ZSH + Powerline anyone?
• nunim Member

  April 2014

  Shouldn't you be able to tell by the hostname? If not maybe you should revisit your naming scheme.

  Thanked by 1linuxthefish
• wych Member

  April 2014

  @nunim said:
  Shouldn't you be able to tell by the hostname? If not maybe you should revisit your naming scheme.

  This, all my boxes have the server location/name in them so I know what box im on.
• MarkTurner Member

  April 2014

  Have a look at this one - http://www.askapache.com/linux/bash-power-prompt.html
• geodirk Member

  April 2014 edited April 2014

  @nunim said:
  Shouldn't you be able to tell by the hostname? If not maybe you should revisit your naming scheme.

  Good idea...I actually don't use the hostname for anything as I do everything off the IP address on all my boxes.
• geodirk Member

  April 2014

  @MarkTurner said:
  Have a look at this one - http://www.askapache.com/linux/bash-power-prompt.html

  Nifty stuff in there
• udk Member

  April 2014 edited April 2014

  Dev boxes (green):

  PS1='\[\033[01;34m\][\A] \[\033[01;32m\]\u@\[\033[01;32m\]\h\[\033[0m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '

  Production boxes (red):

  PS1='\[\033[01;34m\][\A] \[\033[01;31m\]\u@\[\033[01;31m\]\h\[\033[0m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
• Scion Member

  April 2014

  I use this, which is the default Gentoo prompt plus some code I borrowed and modified from a blog some time ago to show the current git branch and whether it's clean or dirty. I think it was this article but apparently I didn't document the URL at the time.

  The default Gentoo prompt is nice because it's green when you're a regular user and red when you become root.

  The git branch turns yellow if it's dirty or cyan if it's clean. If you're not in a git branch, the indicator goes away so it just looks like the default Gentoo prompt again.

  # Enable colors for ls, etc.  Prefer ~/.dir_colors #64489
  if [[ -f ~/.dir_colors ]]; then
          eval `dircolors -b ~/.dir_colors`
  else
          eval `dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS`
  fi
  
  # Change the window title of X terminals 
  case ${TERM} in
          xterm*|rxvt*|Eterm|aterm|kterm|gnome)
                  PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
                  ;;
          screen)
                  PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033_${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\033\\"'
                  ;;
  esac
  
  # Configure colors, if available.
  if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then
    c_bracket='\[\e[1;34m\]'
    c_reset='\[\e[0m\]'
    c_user='\[\e[1;32m\]'
    c_path='\[\e[1;34m\]'
    c_git_clean='\[\e[0;36m\]'
    c_git_dirty='\[\e[0;33m\]'
  else
    c_bracket=
    c_reset=
    c_user=
    c_path=
    c_git_clean=
    c_git_dirty=
  fi
  
  # Function to assemble the Git parsingart of our prompt.
  git_prompt ()
  {
    if ! git rev-parse --git-dir > /dev/null 2>&1; then
      return 0
    fi
    git_branch=$(git branch 2>/dev/null | sed -n '/^\*/s/^\* //p')
    if git diff --quiet 2>/dev/null >&2; then
      git_color="$c_git_clean"
    else
      git_color="$c_git_dirty"
    fi
    echo "${c_bracket}[${c_reset}$git_color$git_branch${c_reset}${c_bracket}]${c_reset}"
  }
  
  # Thy holy prompt.
  PROMPT_COMMAND='PS1="${c_user}\u@\h${c_reset} ${c_path}\w${c_reset}$(git_prompt) ${c_path}\$${c_reset} "'
  

  Thanked by 1linuxthefish
• Bruce Member

  April 2014

  @MarkTurner said:
  Have a look at this one - http://www.askapache.com/linux/bash-power-prompt.html

  excellent link. thanks
• plueschopath Member

  April 2014

  @BotoX said:
  

  ZSH + Powerline anyone?

  can you please share your zshrc with us?

  thank you
• BotoX Member

  April 2014

  https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh

  https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/themes <- agnoster

  You need to use one of these fonts https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts to get it working.

  My zshrc (nothing special, oh-my-zsh does all the fancy stuff) https://files.botox.bz/dotfiles/zshrc