How to Customize your Terminal Prompt
Open terminal.
Type echo PS1 to get current prompt line.
Type PS1=’something’ there something is
- \a an ASCII bell character (07)
- \d the date in “Weekday Month Date” format (e.g., “Tue May 26”)
- \e an ASCII escape character (033)
- \h the hostname up to the first `.’
- \H the hostname
- \n newline
- \r carriage return
- \s the name of the shell, the basename of $0 (the portion following the final slash)
- \t the current time in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format
- \T the current time in 12-hour HH:MM:SS format
- \@ the current time in 12-hour am/pm format
- \u the username of the current user
- \v the version of bash (e.g., 2.00)
- \V the release of bash, version + patchlevel (e.g., 2.00.0)
- \w the current working directory
- \W the basename of the current working directory
- \! the history number of this command
- \# the command number of this command
- \$ if the effective UID is 0, a #, otherwise a $
- \nnn the character corresponding to the octal number nnn
- \\ a backslash
- \[ begin a sequence of non-printing characters, which could be used to embed a terminal control sequence into the prompt
- \] end a sequence of non-printing characters
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