Colorize your Bash prompt

echo 'if [ -f /etc/bash_colorize_prompt ]; then' >> "$HOME/.bashrc" echo ' . /etc/bash_colorize_prompt' >> "$HOME/.bashrc" echo 'fi' >> "$HOME/.bashrc"
then
sudo su
and
> /etc/bash_colorize_prompt echo "## Colors" >> /etc/bash_colorize_prompt echo 'LFRED="[\033[01;31m]" # foreground light red' >> /etc/bash_colorize_prompt echo 'RS="[\033[0m]" # reset' >> /etc/bash_colorize_prompt echo 'FYEL="[\033[33m]" # foreground yellow' >> /etc/bash_colorize_prompt echo 'LFGRN="[\033[01;32m]" # foreground light green' >> /etc/bash_colorize_prompt echo 'FBLE="[\033[34m]" # foreground blue' >> /etc/bash_colorize_prompt echo 'if [ "$USER" = "root" ]; then' >> /etc/bash_colorize_prompt echo ' PS1="${LFRED}u${RS}@${FYEL}h${RS}:${FBLE}w${RS}# "' >> /etc/bash_colorize_prompt echo 'else' >> /etc/bash_colorize_prompt echo ' PS1="${LFGRN}u${RS}@${FYEL}h${RS}:${FBLE}w${RS}$ "' >> /etc/bash_colorize_prompt echo 'fi' >> /etc/bash_colorize_prompt echo 'if [ -f /etc/bash_colorize_prompt ]; then' >> "/root/.bashrc" echo ' . /etc/bash_colorize_prompt' >> "/root/.bashrc" echo 'fi' >> "/root/.bashrc"
Now the last step
source ~/.bashrc
Congratulations.






































January 20th, 2009 at 2:58 am
Good one
I tried it and worked great, thanks.
March 31st, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Nice! BTW, what theme did you use for the ubuntu window decoration?
April 1st, 2009 at 2:08 am
You can get the original one form gnome-look.org “SlicknesS”, I did some changes to the theme “the smooth corners” so you download my version from here.