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ah

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Registered: 2010-08-15

Posts: 22

$PS1 config how to

How would I get my bash prompt to look like this? I'm particularly interested in how prompt spans the width of the terminal and has box-drawing symbols like "┌──":
http://i55.tinypic.com/anzm34.png

Thanks,
ah

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Last edited by ah (2011-02-16 04:43:04)

kcirick

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Registered: 2010-06-21

Posts: 364

Re: $PS1 config how to

you can start from here:
http://www.gilesorr.com/bashprompt/prompts/

Google should give you tons of resources. I think Arch wiki has some information, as well as this

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escondida

Package Maintainer (PM)

Registered: 2008-04-03

Posts: 157

Re: $PS1 config how to

[edit]: Whoops, duplicated the linked post above.

Last edited by escondida (2011-02-16 06:18:30)

fsckd

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Registered: 2009-06-15

Posts: 4,173

Re: $PS1 config how to

A simple forum search would do,
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=84386
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=50885&p=7

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