Terminal Customization (friday night)

Terminal Customization.md

Terminal

• To change the terminals prompt:
  1. nano ~/.bash_profile
  2. export PS1="yourFancyPromptName\t " Displays as: yourFancyPromptName01:25:53
  3. Customization flags: "\d" – Current date "\t" – Current time "\h" – Host name "#" – Command number "\u" – User name "\W" – Current working directory "\w" – Current working directory w/ full path
  4. Slightly distracting prompt colors: force_color_prompt=yes
  5. For more details: https://man.cx/bash
• Customize ls with flags
  1. nano ~/.bash_profile
  2. alias ls='ls -GFh' -G adds color to output
     -F adds a '/' for directories '*' for executables '@' for symlinks -h makes sizes readable -l detailed output
• Reset PATH. Use if bash commands aren't working. This way you can edit your .bash_profile mistake (-___-)
  1. export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
• Change font size on-the-fly
  1. (Command +)
  2. (Command -)
• Divider between commands with timestamp (Modified AJ's code from OSXDaily.com)
  • Four things need to be added to your .bash_profile
  1. export PS1='$fill \t\n'"myPROMPT "
  2. fill="--- "
  3. function prompt_command { let fillsize=${COLUMNS}-9 fill="" while [ "$fillsize" -gt "0" ] do fill="-${fill}" # fill with underscores to work on let fillsize=${fillsize}-1 done }
  4. PROMPT_COMMAND=prompt_command
• Create separate file for aliases.
  1. nano .bash_aliases
  2. if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then . ~/.bash_aliases fi
• More color customization
  1. https://geoff.greer.fm/lscolors/ example use: export CLICOLOR=1 export LSCOLORS=exfxcxdxbxegedabagacad

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