[Nottingham] Colourful smiley prompts for your commandline

[Martin]

Folks,

A nice little snippet I've just rediscovered:

####
# ML smiley prompts
        if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then
                PS1="\[\033[01;31m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \W \$([ \$? = 0 ]
&& echo '\[\033[01;32m\]:)' || echo '\[\033[01;31m\]:(') \\$\[\033[00m\] "
        else
                PS1="\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w \$([ \$? = 0
] && echo '\[\033[01;32m\]:)' || echo '\[\033[01;31m\]:(') \\$\[\033[00m\] "
        fi
####


Note: The PS1 lines are all one line, no line breaks!


Add that onto the end of your ~/.bashrc and voilà! You get nice
colourful smiley prompts that give a green smile upon a successful
command and a red frown if failed. :-)


At least I find it useful as a prompt to show whether the previous
command completed ok.

Hope of use,

Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Lomas
martin at ml1.co.uk
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