The terminal appearance is taken by the PS1 shell variable. The content allowed in PS1 will contain backslash-escape special characters.
First, we will see what PS1's current contents in the system. For that, run the following command:
$ echo $PS1
Here are the backslash-escape special characters:
- \u: Current username
- \h: Hostname
- \W: Current working directory
- \$: Will display # if the user is root; otherwise it will display $ only
- \@: Current time in 12-hour AM/PM format
Now, we will modify our Bash. Run the following command:
$ PS1="[\\u@\\h \\W \\@]\\$"
Now, we will write a command to change the colors.
To make the text ...
