Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:07:49 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Cannon <tcannon@noops.org> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Shell prompt contest Message-ID: <20020102115849.P73145-100000@stereophonic.noops.org> In-Reply-To: <B8589E4B.1AF6%wbaehr@mac.com>
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I'm not one for fancy prompts with the date, room temperature, time since the epoch, Foundry's stock price, and barometric pressue in my PS1. However, I do like to add a bit of practical use to things when I can. I switch between my usual 'tcannon' login and root quite a bit, as I'm always tweaking or tinkering, and have always had my login name show up in my prompt. However, lately I've added another simple brain-dead problem avoidance mechanism -- my prompt changes color depending on who i'm logged in as, and on which machine. It's green if I'm 'tcannon' and red if I'm root... which might just save me from a think-o when I'm working at 3:00am on code and chianti at the same time. tcannon has this in the dotfiles: PS1="\[\033[1;32m\][\u@\h]\\$ \[\033[0m\]" root has this: PS1="\[\033[1;31m\][\u@\h]\\$ \[\033[0m\]" Simple, and not too terribly creative, but I find it handy. Happy new year, thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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