Customizing Your Terminal's Prompt

You will need to edit your ~/.bashrc file using a text editor (e.g., emacs, vim, nano, gedit, …)

You will define a PS1 variable and export it.

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Here are some examples prompts:

PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '

# With Color:

PS1="\[\e[0;35m\]\u@\h \W\$ \[\e[00m\]"

PS1="\h:\W \u\$"
export PS1="\[\e[1;31m\]\h:\W \u\$ \[\e[00m\]"