Adding Color / colour to my prompt

FuziOK fuziok at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 12:08:29 UTC 2007


Paul Ward wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to have a promt that changes colour depending on the user that 
> logs in.
>
> I have added the following to the /etc/skel.bashrc and my other users
> .bashrc files.
>
>   if [ "$USER" == "root" ]; then
>     PS1="\[\033[0;31m\]\u@\h:\w\\$\[\033[0;37m\] "
>   else
>     PS1="\[\033[0;32m\]\u@\h:\w\\$\[\033[0;37m\] "
>   fi
>
> this works great through putty but when using a gui the font changes
> to grey which is hard to read, this is due to the ansi color 37m, how
> can I add a check to see if I am using a putty terminal session or an
> X terminal session?
>
> Any one got any other great tips for changing the prompt?
>
> Paul
>
Try to check environment variable TERM.

if [ x"$TERM" = xxterm ]; then
    ## X terminal session
else
    ## other terminal session
fi




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