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I like to color code my terminal. Production systems are always red. Dev are blue/green. Staging is yellow.
by m_fam_wa_k 10y ago
I like to color code my terminal. Production systems are always red. Dev are blue/green. Staging is yellow.
- joshaidan 10y agoHow do you go about colour coding your terminal?
- TimWolla 10y agoI assume he color coded the prompt. You can use ANSI color escape codes in there to e.g. color your hostname. Here's a generator for Bash: http://bashrcgenerator.com/ http://bashrcgenerator.com/, the prompt's format string is stored in the $PS1 variable.
- TimWolla 10y agoIn this case it looks like it has been a confusion between two different replicated Production databases. So this would not have helped.
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- niftich 10y agoI do this too, but in this case both machines were production, so this alone would not have sufficed. The system-default prompts on the other hand are universally garbage.
- tokenizerrr 10y agoHow exactly do you color code it?
- x0x0 10y agofor example, in .bashrc on osx: RED=$(tput setaf 1) NORMAL=$(tput sgr0) PS1="\[${RED}\]PROD \[${NORMAL}\]\W\$ " produces prompt PROD ~$ <-- prod in red, directory ~
- sytse 10y agoYep, good idea. The same thing has been suggested by team members http://imgur.com/a/TPt7O http://imgur.com/a/TPt7O
- Perihelion 10y agoAll of my non-production machines have emojis in PS1 somewhere. It sounds ridiculous, but I know that if I see a cheeseburger or a burrito I'm not about to completely mess everything up. Silly terminal = silly data that I can obliterate.
- StavrosK 10y agoI think I'd rather make the production systems stand out, and add the emojis there. My prompts have a red background, but emoji prompts just tickle me, somehow.
- kofejnik 10y agoI've been color-coding my PS1 for years, but this is seriously brilliant, thanks!
- scrame 10y agoha! I do the same thing with figlet and cowsay, it prints a big dragon saying "welcome to shell!", if I see that, then I know I'm on a box I own/have sudo/am me. it's a good visual reminder. I don't fuss with prompts much, but this is a pretty good idea!
- marcosdumay 10y agoI got the idea of an emoji prompty that is happy or sad depending on the $? value from somebody here a few years ago. I run it on any dev environment since then.
- cabargas 10y agoIs a really good idea, and is one of the improvements that are likely to be put in place as soon as possible. Its already listed on the document.
- gknoy 10y agoI use iterm2's "badging" to set a large text badge on the terminal of the name of the system as part of my SSH-into-ec2-systems alias: i2-badge () { printf "\e]1337;SetBadgeFormat=%s\a" $(echo -n "$1" | base64) } It's not quite as good as having a separate terminal theme, but then I haven't been able to use that feature properly. :(
- kevindong 10y agoIt seems Gitlab has noticed your comment. Recovery item 3f currently says: > Create issue to change terminal PS1 format/colours to make it clear whether you’re using production or staging (red production, yellow staging)
- karmicthreat 10y agoI've done this exact thing my my servers. Also like GL I prepend PRODUCTION and STAGING on PS1. I should probably make the PRODUCTION flash just in case.
- hobarrera 10y agoWe need a <blink> tag for our PS1.
- spydum 10y agoGood news! Enable ANSI in your terminal and: ESC[5m http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/scripting/terminalcodes http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/scripting/terminalcodes
- eric_h 10y agoYou can do that - I actually tried it and everyone on my team agreed that it was bloody annoying, so I made it stop blinking (still red, though).
- Ezhik 10y agoNot as serious, but I always set root terminals on my system to be this scary red.
- NamTaf 10y agoI have a user and a local admin account at work on our Windows SOE. I have made my PC's cmd.exe show green on black in large font, but intentionally did not change the local admin. When I run a command prompt in admin it's visible different. This is a great tip and it's caught me many times.
- simooooo 10y agoMy dev is yellow, staging orange, and live red
- nodesocket 10y agoIf using iterm you can set a "badge" text on a terminal window that shows up as an overlay. Super useful when you have lots of SSH sessions open to different servers.
- corecoder 10y agoiterm badges have saved me many times.