Custom Bash Prompts

[securitybreach 10,595]

Especailly since I don't make any

 

Rofl

[sunrat 2,126]

Especailly since I don't make any

Me neither. It's easy on Debian. (sunrat dodges hurled stones).

 

ps. I love the irony of your incorect speling.

[goretsky 1,136]

Hello,

 

A bit dated, but this decade-old thread on Slashdot might be of interest: What Does Your Command Prompt Look Like?

 

Regards,

 

Aryeh Goretsky

[sunrat 2,126]

Good one Aryeh. There be some nasty but funny posts there, eg.:

alias rm="echo I\\'m sorry Dave, I\\'m afraid I can\\'t do that"

[V.T. Eric Layton 6,377]

Wow! 2001. I hadn't even heard of Linux then.

[crp 774]

Is that the page that had the infamous Snoopy prompt? It left the user with only 1 viewable command line and took up all the memory allocated to the environment space.

[wa4chq 370]

Reviving the dead....lol

Here's my latest......using ZSH.....I'm also including todays weather.

[saturnian 596]

Wow! I like short and simple for my bash prompts:

 

user1[~]$

 

PS1='\[\e[1;32m\]\u[\w]\\$ \[\e[0m\]'

 

[V.T. Eric Layton 6,377]

Hmm... that is short and simple. I'll bet you're a vanilla ice cream type, huh?

[wa4chq 370]

lol....the screenshot I posted shows the whole screen including my prompt.....the prompt I'm using is just a single line! lol I included the local weather out of kindness...lol

Edited July 23, 2019 by wa4chq

[wa4chq 370]

[saturnian 596]

Hmm... that is short and simple. I'll bet you're a vanilla ice cream type, huh?

 

Ha-ha, I don't know. Oh, here's the whole window with my neofetch:

 

Edited July 23, 2019 by saturnian

[securitybreach 10,595]

This is from my work laptop:

 

[wa4chq 370]

PS1="[%w] $fg[green]%n %~ $fg[white]--> "

Edited July 24, 2019 by wa4chq

[saturnian 596]

PS1="[%w] $fg[green]%n %~ $fg[white]--> "

 

Does this work only for ZSH? I tried it here (using BASH) and it gives me this prompt, all in white:

 

[%w] [green]%n %~ [white]-->

[securitybreach 10,595]

Main home rig prompt:

 

[securitybreach 10,595]

PS1="[%w] $fg[green]%n %~ $fg[white]--> "

 

Does this work only for ZSH? I tried it here (using BASH) and it gives me this prompt, all in white:

 

[%w] [green]%n %~ [white]-->

 

Zsh does not use that syntax in it's config. Here is my ~/.zshrc:

 

# Path to your oh-my-zsh installation.
ZSH=/usr/share/oh-my-zsh/

# Set name of the theme to load.
# Look in ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/
# Optionally, if you set this to "random", it'll load a random theme each
# time that oh-my-zsh is loaded.
ZSH_THEME="evan"

# Uncomment the following line to disable bi-weekly auto-update checks.
DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to enable command auto-correction.
ENABLE_CORRECTION="true"

# Uncomment the following line to display red dots whilst waiting for completion.
COMPLETION_WAITING_DOTS="true"

plugins=(git)

# User configuration
export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH

ZSH_CACHE_DIR=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh-cache
if [[ ! -d $ZSH_CACHE_DIR ]]; then
mkdir $ZSH_CACHE_DIR
fi

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

#Syntax highlighting
source /usr/share/zsh/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh

#Aliases
alias vtop='vtop --theme dark'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias rb='dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.Hal" /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Reboot'
alias pa='yay -Syu'
alias di='di -H -x tmpfs,run'
alias tor='chromium --proxy-server="socks://localhost:9050"'
alias myip='dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com'
alias mixer='pulsemixer'
alias mail='neomutt'
alias mkdir='mkdir -pv'
source /usr/share/doc/pkgfile/command-not-found.zsh
export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel'

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
export GEM_HOME=$(ruby -e 'print Gem.user_dir')
source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm

transfer() { if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then echo -e "No arguments specified. Usage:\necho transfer /tmp/test.md\ncat /tmp/test.md | transfer test.md"; return 1; fi
tmpfile=$( mktemp -t transferXXX ); if tty -s; then basefile=$(basename "$1" | sed -e 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9._-]/-/g'); curl --progress-bar --upload-file "$1" "https://transfer.sh/$basefile" >> $tmpfile; else curl --progress-bar --upload-file "-" "https://transfer.sh/$1" >> $tmpfile ; fi; cat $tmpfile; rm -f $tmpfile; }

[wa4chq 370]

PS1="[%w] $fg[green]%n %~ $fg[white]--> "

 

Does this work only for ZSH? I tried it here (using BASH) and it gives me this prompt, all in white:

 

[%w] [green]%n %~ [white]-->

I believe so, only for zsh. If I try using bash prompts with zsh, they don't work. There are plenty of sites for pimping bash. Here's one...https://www.maketecheasier.com/customise-bash-prompt-linux/

[wa4chq 370]

PS1="[%w] $fg[green]%n %~ $fg[white]--> "

 

Does this work only for ZSH? I tried it here (using BASH) and it gives me this prompt, all in white:

 

[%w] [green]%n %~ [white]-->

 

Zsh does not use that syntax in it's config. Here is my ~/.zshrc:

 

# Path to your oh-my-zsh installation.
ZSH=/usr/share/oh-my-zsh/

# Set name of the theme to load.
# Look in ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/
# Optionally, if you set this to "random", it'll load a random theme each
# time that oh-my-zsh is loaded.
ZSH_THEME="evan"

# Uncomment the following line to disable bi-weekly auto-update checks.
DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE="true"

# Uncomment the following line to enable command auto-correction.
ENABLE_CORRECTION="true"

# Uncomment the following line to display red dots whilst waiting for completion.
COMPLETION_WAITING_DOTS="true"

plugins=(git)

# User configuration
export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH

ZSH_CACHE_DIR=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh-cache
if [[ ! -d $ZSH_CACHE_DIR ]]; then
mkdir $ZSH_CACHE_DIR
fi

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

#Syntax highlighting
source /usr/share/zsh/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh

#Aliases
alias vtop='vtop --theme dark'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
alias rb='dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.Hal" /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Reboot'
alias pa='yay -Syu'
alias di='di -H -x tmpfs,run'
alias tor='chromium --proxy-server="socks://localhost:9050"'
alias myip='dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com'
alias mixer='pulsemixer'
alias mail='neomutt'
alias mkdir='mkdir -pv'
source /usr/share/doc/pkgfile/command-not-found.zsh
export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel'

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
export GEM_HOME=$(ruby -e 'print Gem.user_dir')
source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm

transfer() { if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then echo -e "No arguments specified. Usage:\necho transfer /tmp/test.md\ncat /tmp/test.md | transfer test.md"; return 1; fi
tmpfile=$( mktemp -t transferXXX ); if tty -s; then basefile=$(basename "$1" | sed -e 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9._-]/-/g'); curl --progress-bar --upload-file "$1" "https://transfer.sh/$basefile" >> $tmpfile; else curl --progress-bar --upload-file "-" "https://transfer.sh/$1" >> $tmpfile ; fi; cat $tmpfile; rm -f $tmpfile; }

Nice. I use to use "oh-my-zsh"....pretty slick....lot's of cool prompts to choose from.

vtop.....looks interesting......gotta look into that one.

well, I checked into vtop for MX-18 and Slackware....no dice. Guess I'll settle for nmon or htop.

Edited July 25, 2019 by wa4chq