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On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 02:36:18PM +0100, Toby 'qubit' Cubitt wrote |
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> I used to give the shell prompts different colours on different |
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> machines to help avoid this. Or rather, the local one would always be |
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> the same colour, but shells under ssh sessions were colour-coded by |
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> machine. |
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> I've lost the script I wrote for this somewhere in the mists of time |
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> (if I remember right, it was copied and hacked from a bash prompt |
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> example that colour-coded according to the login type: ssh, telnet, |
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> local, etc.) |
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> Someday I might get round to recreating it... |
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As a basic reminder of which machine I'm on, I set the following... |
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export PS1='[\h][\u][\w]' |
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On my main machine, an AMDK8 3000+, hostname is "m3000", so the prompt |
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comes out as... |
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[m3000][waltdnes][~] |
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My old, emergency backup, semi-retired 1999 Dell PIII 450 mhz machine |
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is named "m450", so its prompt comes out as... |
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[m450][waltdnes][~] |
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For a somewhat more colourful prompt, I now use... |
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export PS1='[\[\033[01;32m\]\h\[\033[00m\]][\[\033[01;34m\]\u\[\033[00m\]][\[\033[01;36m\]\w\[\033[00m\]] ' |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 |
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My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca |
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