Lou's Clues

Archive for May, 2013

Love this command prompt on my Linux Systems.  Use it on both RedHat and Debian.  Feel free to tweak for your own use.  This is a compilation of several different ones I’ve seen and used over the years.

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if [ $(id -u) -eq 0 ];
then # you are root, set red colour prompt
PS1=’\n\[\033[1;33m\] `/bin/cat /proc/loadavg | cut -d” ” -f-1`\[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;30m\] \d \t \[\033[0m\] \n\[\033[1;41m\] <location> \[\033[0m\] \[\033[1;31m\]\h:\[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;33m\]\w \[\033[1;32m\]#\[\033[0m\] ‘
else # normal
PS1=’\n\[\033[1;33m\] `/bin/cat /proc/loadavg | cut -d” ” -f-1`\[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;30m\] \d \t \[\033[0m\] \n\[\033[1;44m\] <location> \[\033[0m\] \[\033[1;36m\]\h:\[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;33m\]\w \[\033[1;32m\]#\[\033[0m\] ‘
fi