Bash Prompt HOWTO

• Index
• Introduction and Administrivia
• Introduction
• Revision History
• Requirements
• How To Use This Document
• Document Versions, Comments and Suggestions
• Problems
• Credits/Bibliography
• Disclaimer
• Bash and Bash Prompts
• What is Bash?
• What Can Tweaking Your Bash Prompt Do For You?
• Why Bother?
• The First Step
• Bash Prompt Escape Sequences
• Setting the PS? Strings Permanently
• Bash Programming and Shell Scripts
• Variables
• Quotes and Special Characters
• Command Substitution
• Non-Printing Characters in Prompts
• Sourcing a File
• Functions, Aliases, and the Environment
• External Commands
• PROMPT_COMMAND
• External Commands in the Prompt
• What to Put in Your Prompt
• Saving Complex Prompts
• ANSI Escape Sequences: Colours and Cursor Movement
• Colours
• Cursor Movement
• Xterm Title Bar Manipulations
• Xterm Title Bars and Screen
• Colours and Cursor Movement With tput
• Special Characters: Octal Escape Sequences
• The Bash Prompt Package
• Availability
• Xterm Fonts
• Changing the Xterm Font
• Line Draw Characters without VGA Fonts
• Loading a Different Prompt
• Loading a Different Prompt, Later
• Loading a Different Prompt, Immediately
• Loading Different Prompts in Different X Terms
• Loading Prompt Colours Dynamically
• A "Proof of Concept" Example
• Prompt Code Snippets
• Built-in Escape Sequences
• Date and Time
• Counting Files in the Current Directory
• Total Bytes in the Current Directory
• Checking the Current TTY
• Stopped Jobs Count
• Load
• Uptime
• Number of Processes
• Controlling the Size and Appearance of $PWD
• Laptop Power
• Having the Prompt Ignored on Cut and Paste
• New Mail
• Prompt Beeps After Long-Running Commands
• Example Prompts
• Examples on the Web
• A "Lightweight" Prompt
• Dan's Prompt
• Elite from Bashprompt Themes
• A "Power User" Prompt
• Prompt Depending on Connection Type
• A Prompt the Width of Your Term
• The Floating Clock Prompt
• The Elegant Useless Clock Prompt
• GNU Free Documentation License
• PREAMBLE
• APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
• VERBATIM COPYING
• COPYING IN QUANTITY
• MODIFICATIONS
• COMBINING DOCUMENTS
• COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
• AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
• TRANSLATION
• TERMINATION
• FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
• How to use this License for your documents
• Legal notice