that's pretty sweet. i already have a prompt i like, but i'll try adding in the color ?tags? you have below. -----Original Message----- From: Rob Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EUG-LUG:2341] Re: command line stuff > On 20010817.1308, Justin Bengtson said ... > > ok, linux time... > > last night i found out how to change my command line font. anybody else > have more neat tricks to spruce up a boring command line? Oh, and I've got this as my prompt. Drop this in ~/.bashrc if you use bash... function elite2 { local TTY=`tty|cut -d/ -f3,4` local C1="\[\033[32;40m\]" local C2="\[\033[35;40m\]" local C3="\[\033[0m\]" local D="$C2-$C1" PS1="$D(\u$C2@$C1\h)$D($TTY)$D(\$(date +%Y%m%d)$C2.$C1\$(date +%H%M))$C2-\n$D(\w)$C2 | $C3" } elite2 unset elite2 It makes a green and purple prompt that looks like this: -(rob@fuggles)-(pts/2)-(20010817.1302)- -(~/code) | -- Rob <rob_at_euglug_dot_net> my @euglugCode = qw(v+++ e--- eug+ bsd+++ gnu+ S+++);
