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Don't fill it with dots, use it. This is my shell prompt. I break after the '%', so that long commands use as much of a line as possible, and I break before the
by a3n 9y ago
Don't fill it with dots, use it. This is my shell prompt. I break after
the '%', so that long commands use as much of a line as possible, and I
break before the prompt, because I like to visibly separate operations.
aaron@tesla ~ %
pwd
/home/aaron
aaron@tesla ~ %
cd Projects
aaron@tesla ~/Projects %
pwd
/home/aaron/Projects
aaron@tesla ~/Projects %
- teh_klev 9y agoI do something similar which is based on the Cygwin default bash prompt: PS1='\033]0;${PWD}\n\033[32m${USER}@${HOSTNAME} \033[33m${PWD/${HOME}/~}\033[0m\n# ' Looks like: root@myhost.name /etc/httpd/conf #
- kps 9y agoThis is what my shell prompt looks like: : stuff; If you copy the entire line, stuff is arguments to the ‘:’ command, which does nothing. (This does mean stuff can't contain unmatched shell special characters.) I think this was invented in the Blit era by someone I've forgotten.