[COFF] What is your prompt?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Friday, 24 December 2021 at 23:40:56 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Here are examples of some of my prompts.  It does use two lines, but
> the extra context is worth it to me:
>
> <tytso at cwcc> {/home/tytso}
> 267% cd /usr/projects/e2fsprogs/base

That's actually surprisingly like mine, though I squeeze it into one
line.  Like you, I find user, system and cwd important, but also the
tty.  In addition I put a marker to help find prompts in long output,
so a typical prompt might be:

  === grog at bilbo (/dev/pts/27) ~/src 6 -> 

That's generated with

  PS1="\[ESC[34m\]=== \u@\h (`tty`) \[ESC[31m\]\w\[ESC[34m\] \# ->\[ESC[30m\]\[ESC[47m\] "

> 272% su
> Password:
> <tytso.root at cwcc> {/home/tytso}, level 2

That's interesting.  How do you do that?

Greg
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