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On Friday, 3 December 2021 13:30:29 GMT Michael wrote: |
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> On Friday, 3 December 2021 12:08:05 GMT tastytea wrote: |
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> > On 2021-12-03 11:17+0000 Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> |
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wrote: |
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> > > Hello list, |
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> > > |
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> > > Is there a way to set the colour of a bash prompt according to |
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> > > whether the user has SSH'd in? |
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> > > |
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> > > This machine is a compile host for some others on the LAN, and it |
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> > > would be helpful if it were more obvious that I'm connected to |
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> > > another machine. Of course, the standard prompt tells me the machine |
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> > > name, but something more conspicuous would help. |
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> > |
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> > When you are connected via SSH, the environment variable |
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SSH_CONNECTION |
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> > is set. I store the color in a variable and set it to yellow if |
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> > `[[ -n "${SSH_CONNECTION}" ]]`. I can't give you the exact snippet |
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> > since I use Zsh, but it should be possible to use a variable as color |
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> > in bash's prompt? |
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> > |
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> > Kind regards, tastytea |
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> |
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> This link expands upon tastytea's idea: |
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> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/217270/change-ps1-color-when-> connected-to-other-host-via-ssh |
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Thank you both. Now I just have to shoehorn it into /etc/bash/bashrc on the |
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SSH server... |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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