Sunday, January 20, 2008

My Custom Prompt for Leopard's Terminal

As I mentioned in my previous post, even though it is not perfect, I settled on using Terminal as my terminal application.

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.
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2 comments:

  1. Shawn Ferry1/21/2008 11:28 AM

    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
    [26]

    I find that I have sessions on diverse hosts such that the extended info is a necessairy evil.

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  2. fikovnik1/29/2008 4:21 PM

    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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