Comments on: How to Customize your Terminal Prompt http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/ Mac OS X Tips, Mac Tricks, Cool Mac Software, System Updates, and More! Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:08:21 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: iphonetoMac http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/comment-page-1/#comment-99942 iphonetoMac Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:07:29 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-99942 While custom my terminal prompt makes easy. While custom my terminal prompt makes easy.

]]> By: Advantage Multi http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/comment-page-1/#comment-99524 Advantage Multi Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:25:31 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-99524 Like fak3r, I like having the time in there plus username@host. Makes it easier to go through the logs and keep things straight. Like fak3r, I like having the time in there plus username@host. Makes it easier to go through the logs and keep things straight.

]]> By: Gregor http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/comment-page-1/#comment-98662 Gregor Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:13:31 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-98662 thanks, that was really helpfull! thanks, that was really helpfull!

]]> By: Dog information http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/comment-page-1/#comment-97452 Dog information Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:30:19 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-97452 I switched from vista to mac OS just 2 weeks ago, so I ‘m still a mac beginner. Thank u yery much for ur tips. I switched from vista to mac OS just 2 weeks ago, so I ‘m still a mac beginner.
Thank u yery much for ur tips.

]]> By: Ronnie Silverio http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/comment-page-1/#comment-96952 Ronnie Silverio Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:59:54 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-96952 Thank you! This helped me out in customizing my prompt in Snow Leopard. To make my prompt more permanent, instead of having to reload .bashrc everytime I opened up a terminal window, I edited the /etc/bashrc file. You'll need to use sudo since it's a read only file. Here's what mine looks like: PS1='\u@\h: \w$ ' So you get the username@host on the first line and then the second line you get the PWD$. Thank you!
This helped me out in customizing my prompt in Snow Leopard. To make my prompt more permanent, instead of having to reload .bashrc everytime I opened up a terminal window, I edited the /etc/bashrc file. You’ll need to use sudo since it’s a read only file. Here’s what mine looks like:

PS1=’\u@\h:
\w$ ‘

So you get the username@host on the first line and then the second line you get the PWD$.

]]> By: Ajmaal Firdowzi http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/comment-page-1/#comment-94015 Ajmaal Firdowzi Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:54:43 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-94015 Hi, I am a banker & I just bought a Mac computer with my bonus I last week. Its the first time that I am using a Mac operating computer & I didn't quite understand how to use it properly though I am able to get familiar with the basic operations. I was able to find this post on Mac terminal skins - http://www.levoltz.com/2009/08/08/macchanging-skins-of-the-terminal/ but is quite hard & complicated to understand for me. Its the first post that came across for me since I mostly use that blog for information. Its a good blog, but then, I found yours & its really great there are so many & topics to discuss. Although its hard for me to understand some things in this, I guess that blog posts will be a fast track to get familiar Mac operating systems. I thank you you for this amazing post. Keep it up. I will keep in touch. Thanks again. Hi,

I am a banker & I just bought a Mac computer with my bonus I last week. Its the first time that I am using a Mac operating computer & I didn’t quite understand how to use it properly though I am able to get familiar with the basic operations.
I was able to find this post on Mac terminal skins – http://www.levoltz.com/2009/08/08/macchanging-skins-of-the-terminal/ but is quite hard & complicated to understand for me. Its the first post that came across for me since I mostly use that blog for information.
Its a good blog, but then, I found yours & its really great there are so many & topics to discuss. Although its hard for me to understand some things in this, I guess that blog posts will be a fast track to get familiar Mac operating systems.

I thank you you for this amazing post. Keep it up. I will keep in touch.

Thanks again.

]]> By: Flug USA http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/comment-page-1/#comment-93669 Flug USA Sat, 09 May 2009 09:55:50 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-93669 Thank you you have really saved my time.I was searching for a long time for a help to cutomize my command prompt. At the begining I have forgotten the dot space dot bashrc thing in . .bashrc so the changes couldn't be affected but shortly after I fixed it. :) That was very helpful especially coz I'm lost fan and I got a nice Lost ’style for my prompt with the following command export PS1="\u@\h\w at \t :" . I'm expecting more tips for mac users in you blog:) keep up the good work Thank you
you have really saved my time.I was searching for a long time for a help to cutomize my command prompt.
At the begining I have forgotten the dot space dot bashrc thing in . .bashrc so the changes couldn’t be affected but shortly after I fixed it. :)
That was very helpful especially coz I’m lost fan and I got a nice Lost ’style for my prompt with the following command
export PS1=”\u@\h\w at \t :” .
I’m expecting more tips for mac users in you blog:)
keep up the good work

]]> By: Flüge Bangkok http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/comment-page-1/#comment-93549 Flüge Bangkok Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:51:42 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-93549 I switched from vista to mac OS just 2 weeks ago, so I 'm still a mac beginner. Thank u yery much for ur tips. It looks now much better than before. I always wanted to change the actual command line prompt but never succeeded to do it. I have followed your instructions and also added \T for another time format, \s for shell name \v for shell version, it is really easy . I switched from vista to mac OS just 2 weeks ago, so I ‘m still a mac beginner.
Thank u yery much for ur tips.
It looks now much better than before. I always wanted to change the actual command line prompt but never succeeded to do it.
I have followed your instructions and also added \T for another time format, \s for shell name \v for shell version, it is really easy .

]]> By: Flüge Bangkok http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/comment-page-1/#comment-93548 Flüge Bangkok Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:51:27 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-93548 I switched from vista to mac OS just 2 weeks ago, so I 'm still a mac beginner. Thank u yery much for ur tips. It looks now much better than before. I always wanted to change the actual command line prompt but never succeeded to do it. I have followed your instructions and also added \T for another time format, \s for shell name \v for shell version, it is really easy . I switched from vista to mac OS just 2 weeks ago, so I ‘m still a mac beginner.
Thank u yery much for ur tips.
It looks now much better than before. I always wanted to change the actual command line prompt but never succeeded to do it.
I have followed your instructions and also added \T for another time format, \s for shell name \v for shell version, it is really easy .

]]> By: Customizing Terminal when compiling Mono apps | Dot Mac http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/comment-page-1/#comment-82969 Customizing Terminal when compiling Mono apps | Dot Mac Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:11:57 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-82969 [...] Here’s how to customize your terminal prompt.   To add the location of mono.pc, edit .profile or .bashrc in the root of your home folder, and add this line [...] [...] Here’s how to customize your terminal prompt.   To add the location of mono.pc, edit .profile or .bashrc in the root of your home folder, and add this line [...]

]]> By: Hawkeye http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/comment-page-1/#comment-60757 Hawkeye Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:28:02 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-60757 No need to quit the Terminal.app and restart... merely open a new Terminal window (this creates a new session). Or you could simply invoke a new bash session by: bash -l No need to quit the Terminal.app and restart… merely open a new Terminal window (this creates a new session). Or you could simply invoke a new bash session by:

bash -l

]]> By: Braxo http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/comment-page-1/#comment-59832 Braxo Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:25:36 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-59832 To have this work after saving .bashrc you can put the exact code into .bash_profile. But even better, keep the code in .bashrc and in .bash_profile put the line: "source ~/.bashrc" without the quotes if you want the prompts to be the same in login and non-login sessions. For my prompt, I chose this: [17:19:21] User@Host::/current_directory >: With Terminal set to Pro style, and the time, @, :: and >: are yellow and User, Host are teal and directory green. Contents of my .bashrc is: export PS1="\e[33;40m[\t] \e[36;40m\u\e[33;40m@\e[36;40m\h\e[33;40m::\e[32;40m\w\e[33;40m >: \e[0m" To have this work after saving .bashrc you can put the exact code into .bash_profile.

But even better, keep the code in .bashrc and in .bash_profile put the line:

“source ~/.bashrc” without the quotes if you want the prompts to be the same in login and non-login sessions.

For my prompt, I chose this: [17:19:21] User@Host::/current_directory >:

With Terminal set to Pro style, and the time, @, :: and >: are yellow and User, Host are teal and directory green. Contents of my .bashrc is:

export PS1=”\e[33;40m[\t] \e[36;40m\u\e[33;40m@\e[36;40m\h\e[33;40m::\e[32;40m\w\e[33;40m >: \e[0m”

]]> By: Dave http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/comment-page-1/#comment-46762 Dave Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:55:14 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-46762 I'm running Tiger and you can use the same code in your ~/.profile file. I assume this will change only the settings for that user, though. I’m running Tiger and you can use the same code in your ~/.profile file. I assume this will change only the settings for that user, though.

]]> By: nick http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/comment-page-1/#comment-40104 nick Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:29:45 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-40104 I had the same problem re: .bashrc not being executed...try making the same edits as above to .bash_profile instead. worked for me. I had the same problem re: .bashrc not being executed…try making the same edits as above to .bash_profile instead. worked for me.

]]> By: Ivan Storck http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/comment-page-1/#comment-33466 Ivan Storck Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:22:19 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-33466 I'm having the same problem as mrc - it seems like .bashrc is not being executed. I have even quit and restarted Terminal. Any ideas? I’m having the same problem as mrc – it seems like .bashrc is not being executed. I have even quit and restarted Terminal. Any ideas?

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