Comments on: How to Customize your Terminal Prompt http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/ News, tips, software, reviews, and more for Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad Tue, 21 May 2013 21:37:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jeffrey Walton http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-469380 Jeffrey Walton Thu, 27 Dec 2012 04:43:12 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-469380 Perhaps its my bad luck.... Mac OS X 10.7 (mid-2008 MBP): export PS1="\h::\W $" results in a prompt of: authoriz-fd8998::~ $ Damn I wish Apple would test their stuff before unleashing it on the world..... Perhaps its my bad luck…. Mac OS X 10.7 (mid-2008 MBP):

export PS1=”\h::\W $” results in a prompt of:
authoriz-fd8998::~ $

Damn I wish Apple would test their stuff before unleashing it on the world…..

]]> By: Steve Rowe http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-434921 Steve Rowe Sun, 07 Oct 2012 09:21:00 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-434921 This is a great addition to the command prompt...... Another i personally use is editing the ~/.bash_rc file and adding the following line in order to view octal and normal drwxr etc permissions when typing list at the prompt (as apposed to typing ls -al) alias list="ls -la | awk '{k=0;for(i=0;i<=8;i++)k+=((substr(\$1,i+2,1)~/[rwx]/)*2^(8-i));if(k)printf(\" %0o \",k);print}'" (The command above is all one line) Hope this helps others see what the permissions are on files and folders at a glance. Steve This is a great addition to the command prompt……

Another i personally use is editing the ~/.bash_rc file and adding the following line in order to view octal and normal drwxr etc permissions when typing list at the prompt (as apposed to typing ls -al)

alias list=”ls -la | awk ‘{k=0;for(i=0;i<=8;i++)k+=((substr(\$1,i+2,1)~/[rwx]/)*2^(8-i));if(k)printf(\" %0o \",k);print}'"

(The command above is all one line)

Hope this helps others see what the permissions are on files and folders at a glance.

Steve

]]> By: Rich http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-415187 Rich Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:35:07 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-415187 Turns out this is only a problem if formatting brackets aren't properly terminated! Turns out this is only a problem if formatting brackets aren’t properly terminated!

]]> By: Rich http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-415173 Rich Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:09:46 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-415173 This formatting works until the command extends to a second line, at which point the first line is overwritten. This formatting works until the command extends to a second line, at which point the first line is overwritten.

]]> By: Filipe Cifali http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-291492 Filipe Cifali Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:04:17 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-291492 Why didn't you just: source .profile or source .bashrc ? Much easier to change this... Source will read and execute the stuff that's in. Why didn’t you just:

source .profile

or

source .bashrc

?

Much easier to change this…

Source will read and execute the stuff that’s in.

]]> By: Bud Simrin http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-255178 Bud Simrin Sat, 15 Oct 2011 03:06:32 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-255178 Thank you so much. My prompt is now cleaned up. In my new iMac with Lion, the terminal prompt was unknown34ce6f4c0ea5 ~ bud$. From this discussion I discovered that the hostname being used was \h = unknown23de6f4c0da2. I replaced \h with my correct computer name as shown in the Sharing preference pane. Does anyone have an idea how \h got messed up, and do I have to worry about this crazy hostname affecting other things? The hex number looks like a MAC address except I don't think I have that particular address anywhere although it differs from my wi-fi hardware Mac address by only 4 of the characters. Thank you so much. My prompt is now cleaned up.

In my new iMac with Lion, the terminal prompt was unknown34ce6f4c0ea5 ~ bud$. From this discussion I discovered that the hostname being used was \h = unknown23de6f4c0da2. I replaced \h with my correct computer name as shown in the Sharing preference pane.

Does anyone have an idea how \h got messed up, and do I have to worry about this crazy hostname affecting other things? The hex number looks like a MAC address except I don’t think I have that particular address anywhere although it differs from my wi-fi hardware Mac address by only 4 of the characters.

]]> By: Add a Separator & Time Stamp Between Terminal Commands to Increase Readability http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-247425 Add a Separator & Time Stamp Between Terminal Commands to Increase Readability Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:19:15 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-247425 [...] you want to customize the Terminals appearance a bit beyond the prompt and a custom background, you can make the Terminal much more readable by using this nice trick to [...] [...] you want to customize the Terminals appearance a bit beyond the prompt and a custom background, you can make the Terminal much more readable by using this nice trick to [...]

]]> By: Pradeep Sharma http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-232592 Pradeep Sharma Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:52:35 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-232592 $ ln -s .bashrc .bash_profile $ ln -s .bashrc .bash_profile

]]> By: ultramantis http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-202469 ultramantis Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:47:15 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-202469 One thing is that in 10.6.7 it seams you have to create a file .bash_profile and put in the commands to change the command line. I used export PS1="[\#]\w>" so it has the command number \# and the complete path name \w One thing is that in 10.6.7 it seams you have to create a file .bash_profile and put in the commands to change the command line. I used

export PS1=”[\#]\w>”

so it has the command number \# and the complete path name \w

]]> By: Making your $ more informative | Drew Inglis http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-202158 Making your $ more informative | Drew Inglis Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:21:03 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-202158 [...] weren’t quite in the order that I wanted. So I went back to my search results, and I found this. Here are the relevant bits: export PS1=" [...] [...] weren’t quite in the order that I wanted. So I went back to my search results, and I found this. Here are the relevant bits: export PS1=" [...]

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]]> By: Setting Different Prompt for Different Konsoles | Aqeel Zafar http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-188366 Setting Different Prompt for Different Konsoles | Aqeel Zafar Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:48:50 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-188366 [...] one is easy, you can lots of posts for that, you can even do it in mac osx, but problem is, changing value for PS1 in .bashrc, effects all terminal windows, and there is no [...] [...] one is easy, you can lots of posts for that, you can even do it in mac osx, but problem is, changing value for PS1 in .bashrc, effects all terminal windows, and there is no [...]

]]> By: erickjohncuevas http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-151949 erickjohncuevas Sat, 25 Dec 2010 06:17:59 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-151949 How will i set the prompt to only like this "$ " and when i change to root will show only "# ". thanks. How will i set the prompt to only like this “$ ” and when i change to root will show only “# “.

thanks.

]]> By: Der Apple/Mac - Userthread http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-147487 Der Apple/Mac - Userthread Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:39:07 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-147487 [...] Eine (englischsprachige) Anleitung findest Du dort: http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-t...rminal-prompt/ Hier die komplette Dokumentation zum Bash-Prompt: [...] [...] Eine (englischsprachige) Anleitung findest Du dort: http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-t…rminal-prompt/ Hier die komplette Dokumentation zum Bash-Prompt: [...]

]]> By: samuelgilman http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-123935 samuelgilman Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:23:12 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/#comment-123935 Thanks, very helpful. Thanks, very helpful.

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