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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> 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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> > 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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> When you are connected via SSH, the environment variable 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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> Kind regards, tastytea |
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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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