On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:48:55AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > It's a shame that you've solved your problem; now I don't have an > > excuse to tell you that this is a great root prompt. > > Not half bad. My own approach is slightly more subtle, but reasonably > effective:
Here's mine, while we're comparing; I put "source $HOME/.prompt && prompt" in by .bashrc. Rob -- ... this must be what it's like to be a COLLEGE GRADUATE!!
#!/bin/bash black () { echo -en "\e[0;30m" ; } red () { echo -en "\e[0;31m" ; } green () { echo -en "\e[0;32m" ; } brown () { echo -en "\e[0;33m" ; } blue () { echo -en "\e[0;34m" ; } purple () { echo -en "\e[0;35m" ; } cyan () { echo -en "\e[0;36m" ; } gray () { echo -en "\e[0;37m" ; } dgray () { echo -en "\e[1;30m" ; } bred () { echo -en "\e[1;31m" ; } bgreen () { echo -en "\e[1;32m" ; } bbrown () { echo -en "\e[1;33m" ; } bblue () { echo -en "\e[1;34m" ; } pink () { echo -en "\e[1;35m" ; } bcyan () { echo -en "\e[1;36m" ; } white () { echo -en "\e[1;37m" ; } norm () { echo -en "\e[0m" ; } prompt () { local BLACK="\[\e[0;30m\]" local RED="\[\e[0;31m\]" local GREEN="\[\e[0;32m\]" local BROWN="\[\e[0;33m\]" local BLUE="\[\e[0;34m\]" local PURPLE="\[\e[0;35m\]" local CYAN="\[\e[0;36m\]" local GRAY="\[\e[0;37m\]" local DGRAY="\[\e[1;30m\]" local BRED="\[\e[1;31m\]" local BGREEN="\[\e[1;32m\]" local BBROWN="\[\e[1;33m\]" local BBLUE="\[\e[1;34m\]" local PINK="\[\e[1;35m\]" local BCYAN="\[\e[1;36m\]" local WHITE="\[\e[1;37m\]" local NORM="\[\e[0m\]" local TIME="$PURPLE$(date +%H:%M)$NORM " [ "$(whoami)" == "root" ] && local DOLLAR="$WHITE\\$\[\]${NORM} " \ || local DOLLAR="$GREEN\\$\[\]${NORM} " # this will let me put a history number in ... I've decided I don't like it #local HIST="$RED\\!${NORM} " if [ $PWD == $HOME ] ; then local DIR="" local TBAR="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" else local DIR="$BROWN[\w]$NORM\n" local TBAR="[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w" fi [ "$TITLEBAR" == "" ] || local TBAR=$TITLEBAR local TBAR="\[\e]0;$TBAR\007\]" case $HOSTNAME in peon) local HOST="" ;; *) local HOST="$BLUE\h$NORM " ;; esac local TTY="$(tty | cut -d/ -f3)" if [ "$TTY" == "pts" ] then local TTY="$TTY/$(tty | cut -d/ -f4)" fi local TTY="$CYAN$TTY$NORM " case $TERM in xterm*) local TBAR=$TBAR local TTY="";; dtterm*) local TBAR=$TBAR local TTY="";; *) local TBAR="" local TTY=$TTY ;; esac export PS1="$TBAR$DIR$TIME$HOST$TTY$DOLLAR" export PROMPT_COMMAND='prompt' } && prompt