\W : the basename of the current working directory, with $HOME abbreviated with a tildeįor breakdown of what the full export PS1 value included in the article means, see Hoylen’s comment.įor a fuller list of backslash-escaped special characters (it’s where I learned the \w \W method) and some tips: \w : the current working directory, with $HOME abbreviated with a tilde In addition still using the change above, if you don’t want your hostname and username always showing in your command prompt, remove the username and hostname parts (including the ”Įxport PS1=”\\W\\$ ” You can replace the \w with \W to show present working directory (as in folder) instead of full directory (as in folder) path from user. Two options for shortening/shortening more your command prompt.ġ. Have a useful bash prompt or some other customization tip? Let us know in the comments. Which is a bit more interesting to look at than this, right? Put it all together, and you should have something like this: You can also easily create your own by spending some time with Terminal Preferences and setting colors and fonts to what you like. You make the call.Īnother approach is to use Terminal themes like IR Black, which are simple to install, add custom colors, and make the command line much more attractive. Opacity and blur alone tend to be enough, but going the extra step to set a background picture can look either really nice or completely garish. Dark background pictures are better for dark themes, light for light, etc Click on “Image” to select a background picture.Click on “Color & Effects” to adjust the background color, opacity, and blur – opacity at 80% or so and blur at 100% is pleasant on the eyes.Back in Terminal Preferences, choose the theme from the left side, then go to the “Window” tab.Adjust Background Opacity, Blur, & Background ImageĪfter you have colorization squared away, adjusting the terminals background appearance is a nice touch: Generally it’s best to adjust ANSI colors to be near their intended color mark but in the realm of being easier to read, a shade of grey to replace black for example.
Going further with ANSI colors, if you discover that certain text contrast or text colors are hard to read with a specific profile or against a specific background color in Terminal, you may want to manually adjust the ANSI colors used by Terminal app, this is done through the Preferences > Profiles > Text section: This makes things like directories and executables be bold and brighter, making them easier to spot in listings. Choose your profile/theme from the left side list, then under the “Text” tab check the boxes for “Use bold fonts” and “Use bright colors for bold text”.Pull down the Terminal menu and choose “Preferences”, then click the “Settings” tab.Most themes have ANSI color on by default, but enable it if it’s not. This will be theme and profile dependent, meaning you will have to adjust this for each theme. Enable Bold Fonts, ANSI Colors, & Bright Colors Still not satisfied with the appearance, or have you already done that? There’s more to do. Open a new terminal window, run ls, and see the difference. Pasted in properly, it should look like this: G colorizes output, -h makes sizes human readable, and -F throws a / after a directory, * after an executable, and a after a symlink, making it easier to quickly identify things in directory listings. The next two lines enable command line colors, and define colors for the ‘ls’ commandįinally, we alias ls to include a few flags by default. The first line changes the bash prompt to be colorized, and rearranges the prompt to be $” Hit Control+O to save, then Control+X to exit out of nano.bashrc located in the home directory, for the purpose of this walkthrough we’ll use. Modify Bash Prompt, Enable Colors, Improve ‘ls’Īt a bare minimum, let’s get a better bash prompt, improve the output of the frequently used ls command, and enable colors.
Follow along and try them all, or just pick and choose which makes the most sense for you.
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