Putting a \n at the end of your PS1.

Anikom15 · 2009-12-04 02:37:16

Does anyone like to put a newline after their prompt? I just discovered it, I get more space and can put more crap on my prompt at the expense of vertical space. (which isn't as critical with scrolling).

tlvb · 2009-12-04 02:48:17

I have a newline and a $ in that order as the end of my prompt.

Gen2ly · 2009-12-04 04:23:02

I tent to cut and paste alot from the terminal so I like to do it, req:

vMnd1dQ

Allan · 2009-12-04 04:30:51

My prompt looks exactly like at the top of this: http://dev.archlinux.org/~allan/

presario · 2009-12-04 06:24:19

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@Gen2ly
What font are you using? It looks very nice
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Gen2ly · 2009-12-04 07:28:11

It's blasphemy, but I use Redmond's consolas.

alexandrite · 2009-12-04 12:52:44

I do. At first, I didn't really think doing such a thing would be practical, but it really helps visibility when you want to do a long command in a deep directory.

/--[ alex@Hal-Jr-Arch ~/Music/Presidents_of_the_United_States_of_America/The_Presidents_Of_The_United_States_Of_America ]--(07:47:10)-
\--> for i in *.mp3; do x=`echo $i | sed -e 's/\..*//' -e 's/[0-9]*\ //'`; mid3v2 --song="$x" "$i"; done;

can fit on two lines in a smallish terminal.

Last edited by alexandrite (2009-12-04 12:53:09)

lswest · 2009-12-04 14:20:10

I use a newline at the end of my Zsh prompt. In case anyone is interested, to do so is slightly different than in Bash. My Prompt code (important part marked in bold):

export PS1="%{$fg[white]%}┌─[%{$fg[green]%}%n%{$fg[cyan]%}@%{$fg[green]%}%m%{$fg[white]%}:%{$fg[yellow]%}%~%{$fg[white]%}]%{$fg[yellow]%}-%{$fg[red]%}[%{$fg[cyan]%}%*%{$fg[red]%}]%{$reset_color%}%{$reset_color%}"$'\n'"%{$fg[white]%}└─>%{$reset_color%} "

Basically you have to break out of any double quotes there are, and add $'\n', in order to have a newline. I thought I'd post it here since it took me a while to figure that one out.

Results in this prompt (in the terminal it's colored, thus the colors above):

    ┌─[lswest@lswest-netbook:~]-[15:21:07]
    └─>

Last edited by lswest (2009-12-04 14:25:45)

Rede · 2009-12-04 14:47:27

lswest wrote:

I use a newline at the end of my Zsh prompt. In case anyone is interested, to do so is slightly different than in Bash. My Prompt code (important part marked in bold):
export PS1="%{$fg[white]%}┌─[%{$fg[green]%}%n%{$fg[cyan]%}@%{$fg[green]%}%m%{$fg[white]%}:%{$fg[yellow]%}%~%{$fg[white]%}]%{$fg[yellow]%}-%{$fg[red]%}[%{$fg[cyan]%}%*%{$fg[red]%}]%{$reset_color%}%{$reset_color%}"$'\n'"%{$fg[white]%}└─>%{$reset_color%} "
Basically you have to break out of any double quotes there are, and add $'\n', in order to have a newline. I thought I'd post it here since it took me a while to figure that one out.
Results in this prompt (in the terminal it's colored, thus the colors above):
    ┌─[lswest@lswest-netbook:~]-[15:21:07]
    └─>

That's quite a nice PS1, very creative. Well done.

Daenyth · 2009-12-04 15:32:17

My laptop's prompt stuff is here. My main box is on the master branch.

lswest · 2009-12-04 16:12:47

Rede wrote:

That's quite a nice PS1, very creative. Well done.

Thanks I got the general idea for the layout of the prompt off someone either here on the Forums, or on UbuntuForums, so I can't take all the credit, but I added in the things I found most useful. I always find having a timestamp on command useful, in case you want to know how long it takes and such. I also have a variation to use in Screen, that displays the number of the screen window in the prompt, though that section was borrowed off someone else's config.

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hatten · 2009-12-04 18:32:09

export PS1='\[\033[0;32m\]╔═[\[\033[0m\033[0;36m\]\u\[\033[0;32m\]@\[\033[0m\033[0;36m\]\h\[\033[0;32m\]]═[\[\033[0m\033[0;36m\]\t \d\[\033[0;32m\]]═[\[\033[0m\033[0;36m\]\w\[\033[0;32m\]]\n\[\033[0;32m\]╚═══[\[\033[0m\033[0;36m\]\$\[\033[0;32m\]]>\[\033[0m\] '

results in
╔═[hatten@prinplup]═[19:24:32 Fri Dec 04]═[~]
╚═══[$]>
in teal and light green. sexy!

pauldonnelly · 2009-12-05 00:23:33

I wouldn't want to waste vertical space. Single-character prompts for me. Using the shell is more pleasant when visiting directories with long names doesn't obliterate your entire screen.

hatten · 2009-12-05 00:55:46

pauldonnelly wrote:

I wouldn't want to waste vertical space. Single-character prompts for me. Using the shell is more pleasant when visiting directories with long names doesn't obliterate your entire screen.

I got no conky, so i need to have the clock/date somewhere, and if i had a single character prompt i wouldn't be able to see which computer i were working on. But having a single-character prompt, won't you have to use pwd and the like quite often?

pauldonnelly · 2009-12-06 20:23:51

hatten wrote:

pauldonnelly wrote:
I wouldn't want to waste vertical space. Single-character prompts for me. Using the shell is more pleasant when visiting directories with long names doesn't obliterate your entire screen.
I got no conky, so i need to have the clock/date somewhere,

Don't you need to press Enter to get an up-to-date time? I could type "date" as easily as that. But I do run an Xclock to tell me the time.

and if i had a single character prompt i wouldn't be able to see which computer i were working on.

I color-code mine.

But having a single-character prompt, won't you have to use pwd and the like quite often?

%grep -c pwd .histfile 
1
%wc -l .histfile
1000 .histfile

Not particularly. Maybe if I leave the computer and there's nothing on the screen to remind me which directory I was in when I come back. The number of times per day that I forget what directory I'm in doesn't come close to justifying having it in my prompt at all times for me.

hatten · 2009-12-06 22:05:14

Well whatever suits your taste, might do that on my netbook where i don't have such a big screen.

alexandrite · 2009-12-06 22:57:01

This may be OT, but how are you getting the "window border" characters into your propmts? I know that I could just paste yours, but I'm betting there's a better way .

upsidaisium · 2009-12-07 08:18:21

pauldonnelly wrote:

The number of times per day that I forget what directory I'm in doesn't come close to justifying having it in my prompt at all times for me.

this thought has occurred to me before, but until today i hadn't tried using a single character prompt (well.. two characters if we're counting the space after the '>'). my screen is so much cleaner now now to figure out if i can change lftp's prompt, which gets so long and ugly after i cd into child directories..

jowilkin · 2009-12-07 08:22:33

My prompt, modified slightly from one posted on these forums a while back:

╭─[jowilkin::bubba::~]
╰─[03:38:22]>

I'm considering taking the time out of it to get some more room and because I don't find it that useful. Username is light green, host is light blue, cwd is black My PS1:

╭─[\[\e[1;32m\]\u\[\e[0m\]::\[\e[1;36m\]\h\[\e[0m\]::\w] ╰─[\T]>

It turns red if I'm logged in as root, a nice reminder to not do anything stupid

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moljac024 · 2009-12-07 08:26:29

Gen2ly wrote:

I tent to cut and paste alot from the terminal so I like to do it, req:
http://omploader.org/vMnd1dQ

I like that. Would you share that?

Gen2ly · 2009-12-07 10:53:25

Yeah, no problem.

set_prompt_style () {
  local bldpur='\e[1;35m' # Purple
  local bldblu='\e[1;34m' # Blue
  local bldblk='\e[1;30m' # Black - Bold
  local bldred='\e[1;31m' # Red
  local txtrst='\e[0m'    # Text Reset
#  local bashuser="\[$bldpur\]\u@\[$txtrst\]"    # username
  local bashhost="\[$bldpur\]\h\[$txtrst\]"     # hostname
  local bashdir="\[$bldblu\]\w\[$txtrst\]"      # directory
  local bashprompt="\[$bldblk\]:\n\[$txtrst\]"  # prompt symbol
  if [ `whoami` == "root" ] ; then
#  local bashuser="\[$bldred\]\u@\[$txtrst\]"
  local bashhost="\[$bldred\]\h\[$txtrst\]"
  fi
PS1="$bashuser$bashhost $bashdir$bashprompt"
}
set_prompt_style

B-Con · 2009-12-09 19:24:47

Here's what my prompt looks like:

.:[ b-con@beacon-laptop2 | 13:11:11 | ~/Desktop ]:.
$

My prompt function auto-trims the working directory to ensure that it doesn't go longer than the width of the terminal.

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