The default prompt that comes with MacOS is not very useful, so I configured my own by adding this line to my
.bashrc file:export PS1="\[\033]0;\u@\h:\w\007\]\u@\h:\W\\$ "
This results in a prompt that looks like this:
This prompt displays the prompt as
username@hostname:currentdir$ and in addition to that it sets the window title to username@hostname:pwd.
2 comments:
You can see (almost) my significantly more solaris centric zsh prompt (on my mac I drop the zone info)
if [ -x /usr/bin/zonename ]
then
export zone=`/usr/bin/zonename`
else
export zone="notzone"
fi
export prompt="[%n@%m(%?) %T %l] {$zone}
%/
[%h] "
[sferry@7cit001ua(0) 13:19 pts/59] {notzone}
/export/home/sferry
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I find that I have sessions on diverse hosts such that the extended info is a necessairy evil.
I kind of like colors so beginning of my .bashrc:
# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
# see more at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tip-prompt/
# set prompt to [user@host:dir]$
PS1="\[\e[1;37m\][\u@\h:\[\e[0m\]\[\e[1;34m\]\W\[\e[0m\]\[\e[0;37m\]]\$\[\e[0m\] "
# so colors are in sync with ls LSCOLORS="Exfxgxhxcxbxcxcxdxdx"
export LSCOLORS
;;
*)
PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
;;
esac
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