Change Prompt in bash or tcsh

April 9, 2004

Filed under: Computer — blogadmin @ 10:49 pm

for bashrc

# .bashrc

# very basic

#export PS1=”\w: ”

# basic with time

export PS1=”[\@ \u] \w: ”

# blue background

#export PS1=”\[33[44m\](\@) \w: \[33[44m\]”

# basic yellow

#export PS1=’\[33[0;33m\](\n\@) \w :33[0m\]’

# yellow

#export PS1=”[33[0;33m\]\u@\h \w]\\$ ”

# WHITE=”\[33[1;37m\]”

#export PS1=”[33[1;37m\]\u@\h \w]\\$ ”

#Black=

#export PS1=”[33[0;30m\]\u@\h \w]\\$ ”

#Blue

#export PS1=”[33[0;34m\]\u@\h \w]\\$ ”

#Green

#export PS1=”[33[0;32m\]\u@\h \w]\\$ ”

#Cyan

#export PS1=”[33[0;36m\]\u@\h \w]\\$ ”

#Red

#export PS1=”[33[0;31m\]\u@\h \w]\\$ ”

#Purple

#export PS1=”[33[0;35m\]\u@\h \w]\\$ ”

#Brown

#export PS1=”[33[0;33m\]\u@\h \w]\\$ ”

#Gray

#export PS1=”[33[0;37m\]\u@\h \w]\\$ ”

#DarkGray

#export PS1=”[33[1;30m\]\u@\h \w]\\$ ”

#LightBlue

#export PS1=”[33[1;34m\]\u@\h \w]\\$ ”

#LightGreen

#export PS1=”[33[1;32m\]\u@\h \w]\\$ ”

#LightCyan

#export PS1=”[33[1;36m\]\u@\h \w]\\$ ”

#LightRed

#export PS1=”[33[1;31m\]\u@\h \w]\\$ ”

#Yellow

#export PS1=”[33[0;33m\]\u@\h \w]\\$ ”

#White

#export PS1=”[33[1;37m\]\u@\h \w]\\$ ”
For cshrc on unix, using

set prompt=\[`/usr/xpg4/bin/id -nu`@`hostname`’ %~’\]\$’ ‘