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Alexander Davison
65,469 PointsHow do you change the Command Prompt?
Can someone explain how to change the Command Prompt?
I know it's possible because I saw @Kenneth Love once with a different prompt (I mean a completely diffferent prompt that was obviously was customized by Kenneth).
How do you change the prompt?
Here's the video where Kenneth used a different prompt (a heart prompt lol): Harnessing the Power of Vim
Please provide the command or something.
Thank you! I appreciate any help :)
2 Answers
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherI use zsh as my shell (instead of the Mac-default bash) and I have a custom theme set up through oh-my-zsh. Google can tell you a ton about both of those things and show you how to set them up yourself if you want. I think there's an oh-my-bash, too, if you don't want to switch shells.
Alexander Davison
65,469 PointsThank you! :)
Alexander Davison
65,469 PointsBy the way I just found a way to change the prompt while using Bash.
All you need to do is to type in:
PS1="Your prompt "
And to change it forever, you just need to add that to the end of a file called .bashrc in you home directory.
Moritz Lang
25,909 PointsHi Alexander, you could use something like zsh or even oh-my-zsh to style you terminal.
Alexander Davison
65,469 PointsHuh?
Alexander Davison
65,469 PointsAlexander Davison
65,469 PointsKenneth Love