Colorize and customize linux terminal

Posted by Adarshreddy Adelli

Saturday, June 20, 2020

Most Linux people prefer terminal over GUI (count me in ✋). Doesn't know how others feel but for me using terminal makes feel super excited. Its time to apply some useful and colourful tweaks to our terminal.

🔥 up your terminal

1. Showing git branch name:
    ~ copy paste the following in terminal.
    ~ make sure git is installed.

      gitB(){ 
          gitps1=$(git branch2>/dev/null |grep'*')
          gitps1="${gitps1:+ (${gitps1/#\* /})}" 
     echo"$gitps1"
           } 

      PS1='\u@\h:\w$(gitB)$ '

2.  Showing the time in prompt:
    

     timePrompt(){echo"$(date +%r)"}     PS1='[$(timePrompt)] \u@\h:\w$ ' 

3. Showing command status:

      function  cstat(){          if[$? -eq 0];  then              echo -en"$Green ✔ $Color_Off "                 else echo-en"$Red ✘ $Color_Off "          fi        } 

      PS1='$(cstat)' 

4. Changing shell prompt color

     PS1='\e[33;1m\u@\h: \e[31m\W\e[0m\$ '

    ~Apply your own bash colors 

That's it for now ! I will update more tweaks when I encounter them so keep visiting this page.

Note : Your tweaks gets deleted after closing terminal. So to make it permanent copy your code into .bashrc file (nano ~/.bashrc).

Adarshreddy Adelli Saturday, June 20, 2020 Linux