A very colorful example that will really stand out.
4.4 Wed Aug 29 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $
Here is the code for this example.
export PS1="\[\033[38;5;39m\]\v\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;15m\] \[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;83m\]\d\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;15m\] \[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;201m\]\u\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;196m\]@\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;51m\]\H\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;15m\] \[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;82m\]\l\[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[38;5;15m\]: \\$ \[$(tput sgr0)\]" |
This is a nice monochrome example. This is more restrained.
-09:27:42-- jason@Yog-Sothoth [~]$
and this is the code for this example.
PS1="-\t-- \u@\h [\w]\$ " |
More information on setting up your shell here.
https://securitronlinux.com/my-linux-tips-and-tricks-page-part-1/#toc-setting-up-your-bash-prompt.
This is another example with color.
09:32:12 jason@Yog-Sothoth ~ $
it is very good to use if the user wishes to make it stand out from the shell output, but not to be as garish as my first example.
PS1='\t \e[0;35m\u\e[m@\h \W \$ ' |
There are a couple more examples on this page.
https://securitronlinux.com/debian-testing/very-nice-bash-ps1-prompts/.
How to have a bash prompt that changes when the user is in a certain folder.
Use a bash prompt that is randomly generated every time it appears.
These tips should really help out a Linux user that is needing to customize their Linux environment to suit a particular use case. Or just for fun.
Print a very colorful table in your terminal.
for i in {1..1500};{ printf '\e[38;5;%dm%d \n' "$i" "$i"; } | column