We have a management serve that governs both Live and Stage servers. To visually remind people which they are using use this script to change colours depending on current directory. The important part is just the \e[0;#m at the start of the string which changes the prompt to color code # To use, add to .bashrc: alias cd="source /path/to/script/c…

changedir.sh

#!/bin/bash

if [[ $# -gt 0 ]]
then
        pushd "$1" >> /dev/null
fi

if [[ "$PWD" == *'/live/'* ]]
then
        # red
        PS1='\[\e[0;31m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \[\e[m\]';
elif [[ "$PWD" == *'/stage/'* ]]
then
        # green
        PS1='\[\e[0;32m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \[\e[m\]';
else
        # white
        PS1='\[\e[0;37m\]\u@\h:\w\$ \[\e[m\]';
fi