My favourite prompt-hack is to colourise the $ when the previous command exits non-zero, here's how I have my bash PS1 set up: http://www.metabrew.com/article/u

My favourite prompt-hack is to colourise the $ when the previous command exits non-zero, here's how I have my bash PS1 set up: http://www.metabrew.com/article/updated-bash-ps1 http://www.metabrew.com/article/updated-bash-ps1 If you exit `top` by pressing q, it exits with non-zero - who knew? :)