[Nottingham] bash prompt

[Martin]

Martin Garton wrote:
> Following on from Martin's excellent bash talk, here is the prompt I 
> mentioned to one or two people that makes use of a couple of the things we 
> discussed at the talk.
> 
> export PS1="$PS1 \`if [ \$? = 0 ]; then echo \:\); else echo \:\(; fi\`"
> 
> For those who I didn't mention it to, it should be easy to work out what 
> it does, and even easier to try it.

Very nice :) thanks.

Hint:
Try it with the commands true and false :(

Cheers,
Martin

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