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[Question] Which shell prompt do you use and why?
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I designed this prompt shortly after I switched to Linux, I've been using it for a while, it has a few features like putting the exit code if it isn't 0, changing the hostname color if its detected that you are over ssh, changing the directory color to red if it isn't writeable, changing the prompt color to red if your euid is 0, and instead of printing
I have no name!
when your user does not have an entry in the passwd file, it will just print your uid in red. I also have a version that I wrote in C that works the same way with a subsitution shell, but it was harder to sync across all my devices when I made a change, so I rewrote it in posix shell that could be synced with just my.bashrc
and work almost anywhere.I don't know how to post a screenshot, sorry for the long paragraph, but here is the source code, feel free to share or do whatever with it!