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Prompt Description

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The bash prompt easy to understand and includes information such as the user, hostname, and working directory. For a default shell an example of the prompt description is

  • <username>@<hostname><current working directory>$
  • <username>@<hostname>[~]$ default folder when logged in
  • root@htb[/htb]# log in as root in the root home directory
  • User Prompt $ and Root Prompt #

You can customize this in by using tools like script or in .bash_script to filter and print all the commands. One can use special characters in shell configuration file .bashrc.

  • \d Date (Mon Feb 6)
  • \D{%Y-%m-%d} Date (YYYY-MM-DD)
  • \H Full hostname
  • \j Number of jobs managed by the shell
  • \n Newline
  • \r Carriage return
  • \s Name of the shell
  • \t Current time 24-hour (HH:MM:SS)
  • \T Current time 12-hour (HH:MM:SS)
  • \@ Current time
  • \u Current username
  • \w Full path of the current working directory

Customizing the prompt can make it the terminal experience more personalized and efficient. You can use bash-prompt generator and powerline to adapt prompts to ones needs.

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