Re: Why ``color_prompt`` is only set for ``xterm``? (colored prompt examples)

[Intense Red <intnsred@golgotha.net>]

> In /root/.bashrc I use this to give a red prompt including host and
> full path followed by a new line.

   I take this idea a bit further, setting a longer prompt and setting 
workstation hosts for specific colors for user logins, and then doing a red 
prompt for servers.

   Part of my ~/.bashrc:

# Set the hostname to a specific color
HostName=`hostname -s`
if [ $HostName = "capncrunch" ]; then
   HostColor="\[\033[1;36m\]" # Bright Cyan
 elif [ $HostName = "piglet" ]; then
   HostColor="\[\033[1;35m\]" # Bright Purple
 elif [ $HostName = "wiseguy" ]; then
   HostColor="\[\033[1;32m\]" # Bright Green
 elif [ $HostName = "munchkin" ]; then
   HostColor="\[\033[1;34m\]" # Bright Blue
 elif [ $HostName = "bingo" ]; then
   HostColor="\[\033[1;33m\]" # Bright Yellow
# Now set red colors for servers:
 elif [ $HostName = "toto" ]; then
   HostColor="\[\033[1;31m\]" # Bright Red
 elif [ $HostName = "dorothy" ]; then
   HostColor="\[\033[1;31m\]" # Bright Red
# set any other machine to Bright White
 else
   HostColor="\[\033[1;37m\]" # Bright White
fi

# Check to see if the script is being run by root and set
# appropriate prompts:
if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then
   PromptSymbol="$"
   UserNameColor="\[\033[1;32m\]"
else
# let's make the root user's prompt a blinking red prompt
   PromptSymbol="\[\033[1;31m\]\[\033[5m\]#\[\033[0m\]"
   UserNameColor="\[\033[1;31m\]"
fi

# And everyone wants a 3-line prompt that gives a little more info than the
# default bash prompt, right?!
#
# E-mail messaging might screw this up a little, but try this as your PS1
# prompt:
PS1="┌─[$UserNameColor\u\033[0m@$HostColor$HostName\033[0m][\033[1;33m\]
\w\033[0m]\n│ [\033[1;36m\]\t   \d\033[0m]\n└─$PromptSymbol "
#
# That PS1 above, of course, should be all on one line.

# We'll unset the temporary variables we set above just to clean things up:
unset HostName HostColor PromptSymbol UserNameColor 

# I like to tweak the Bash colors a bit for "ls" listings. This might give
# someone some ideas:
LS_COLORS='no=00:fi=00:di=01;33:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:
*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:
*.tif=01;35:*.mpg=01;37:*.mp4=01;37:*.avi=01;37:*.mkv=01;37:*.gl=01;37:*.dl=01;37:'
# That LS_COLORS line should, of course, all be on one long line.

# Then we need to export them so the shell picks things up.
export PS1 LS_COLORS

   That's worth playing with to change some of the default settings if one 
wants to play with the colors of a terminal (I use KDE's "konsole" rather than 
xterm, but it's the same idea.

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