Re: bash prompt question

On 2024-09-24, Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr> wrote:

* François Patte <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr> in comp.unix.shell:

Wanting to personalize my bash prompt I wrote in my .bashrc file (with
the help of "Learning the BASH shell"):

>

 export PS1='\[\e[1;35m\]\u@\h -\d- ${text} \W\[\e[m]\]\$ '

>
While it is useful to play with PS1 for learning purposes, to be able to customize
your prompt easily and in a powerful way, I advise the use of a framework prompt.
There are many of them, one I really like is Starship:
>
https://starship.rs/
https://github.com/starship/starship

Or you can put some info into a scroll-protected status line and just
have $ as your prompt, via a tiny file you just source from your
.bashrc:

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/basta/about/

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