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Re: A Suggestion On Bash
From: |
Sitaram Chamarty |
Subject: |
Re: A Suggestion On Bash |
Date: |
Sun, 8 Feb 2009 03:45:17 +0000 (UTC) |
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On 2009-02-08, donglongchao <donglongchao@163.com> wrote:
> Dear Sir or Madam: I have a wonderful idea about
> Bash(GNU bash version 3.2.39(1)-release
> (i486-pc-linux-gnu)).
>
> When I use tools like 'cat' or some other commands
> like this,I find it hard to specify where the file
you probably mean 'identify' not 'specify'
> that I 'cat' begins because the command I typed
> just now was mixed with the file I want to read and
> they look like the same.
>
> So I think if we could add special color such as
> red or green to the command lines we typed before
> to mark them,just like the different colors on
> different kinds of files and catalogues,it will be
> much easier for us to tell where the file we want
> to read begins.
'man bash' and read about PS1 (the primary bash prompt).
There are hundreds of ways to color output, used for all
sorts of things; a very recent example from my life is at
http://sitaramc.github.com/images/git-completion-plus.png --
every command line in that screenshot is colored in some
way.
As an example, the PS1 I use is:
PS1='\[\e[32m\]\t\[\e30m\] \h:\W \$ \[\e[m\]'