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March 19, 2024 02:05
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Customizing your shell prompt
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| Customizing your shell prompt | |
| Shell prompts are extremely customizable. You can customize them in two ways: (1) by using command characters that print out special things and (2) by using colors. Also, customizing the prompt is different in different shells; I'm going to cover tcsh and zsh here. bash is the other popular shell, but I think it sucks, and I never use it, so I'm not going to waste any time on it. | |
| tcsh | |
| zsh | |
| tcsh | |
| I'll start with tcsh, since it's the default BSD and Mac OS X shell. Here's a very simple prompt: |