Customizing Your Terminal: Adding Color and Information to Your Prompt 

== Start 0:00 Intro == Basics 0:08 modifying .bashrc file 0:33 prompt = PS1 variable 0:53 export PS1; 1:11 source (== environment??) 1:51 dynamic information examples 1:59 use corresponding escaped characters 2:36 cheatsheet 3:04 example illustration == Colors Intro 4:41 colors intro 5:16 command substitution 6:14 using tput with substitution 6:58 256 color chart == Colors Application 7:38 using it for PS1 8:08 resetting style 9:16 adding more colors == Script Maintenence 10:51 pretty printing the value 12:10 commenting in script 12:46 wrapping commands = Final Setup 14:04 Final setup's overview 14:43 specifying custom variables 15:39 quick go through == End 16:38 conclusion 17:00 dot files 18:10 outro

Oh man this video is just awesome, I've never find out something so well explained and complete. This is exactly what i was looking for. I will subscribe right now. Thank you very much.

I really find your tutorials very well made, high quality, to the point and with a direct practical application! Thank you so much!

I just got a MacBook for work where I am training as a developer , and my environment was all messed up. These videos were so helpful! Thank you! Legend.

This video explanation is seriously excellent. Thank you Corey S.

Really useful video, I didn't do the colors substitutions but having the user and directory names in one line and the prompt in another one and a blank line in between commands are absolutely useful for me! Thanks a lot Corey

Now I know how to customize my terminal! Great stuff man! Keep doing it!

The BEST video about this. Love the detail. Seriously man great work.

Very cool. I discovered, though, that the bash that came with my Kubuntu 16 doesn't do 256 colors--at least as currently configured. It will only do 8: 0=Black, 1=Red, 2=Green, 3=Yellow, 4=Blue, 5=Magenta, 6=Cyan, 7=White, 8 [Not used], 9=Reset to default color. I won't bother to see if I can set my bash to 256 colors--8 are fine for this purpose. I just thought I'd share this to save someone else the half hour it took me to figure out. BTW, you can see how many colors your bash will do (by default?) with: > *_tput colors_*

Thank you very much - the superior quality of your videos - is just fantastic!

Wow! now my terminal looks really dopey! Thanks!

Thanks. This was very straight forward.

I don't know what my programming life would be without you corey, nothing but gratitude. How to manage branch name?

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Always a lot of really good information and examples in plain language.

OMG Corey your videos are just awesome,explained and to the point... I just subscribed, liked almost all your videos and would comment in the comment section below.👏 Very nice staffs

Great! Nice explanation and example! Thanks for sharing!

very nice explanation

Better than Lecture in University or tutorial session.

Thank you very much, when i saw your Video about grep i instantly noticed how cool your terminal looks :D

Amazing video with great explanations! Got my sub, sir!

Explanation in my level of understanding.. thank you

Good stuff. 👍 It pointed me in the right direction to get my terminal looking nice.

this is scarily clear. thanks man!

awesome.. im addicted to Linux Commands.. So much fun

This is a really good tutorial. Thank you

Awesome!! Love this!! Thanks a lot!!!!

Thanks Man.

Great video thanks for sharing. I have one question, how can I add some margin to the bottom of my terminal, so that I never have to type at the bottom of my screen?

@coreyms, It was a great video. I have a question, I wanted to change the color of the foreground text after using any command. Like for example I will use the command 'ls' which will show the list of files and directories in a specific path that I am currently in, so I want those list (files and directories) should show in a specific color, how to do it? tput sgr0 - i removed this and tried but in this case entire thing changes its color but I want specific color only to the result of a command (ex: 'ls')

Awesome, Thanks, Corey!

Spectacular!!!

Thank you. This video was really enlightening. I am a beginner in the terminal world. I would like to know how to customize the terminal so that different kind of files shows up in different color...for eg - executable files in one color and normal files in other colors depending on their extension.

Awesome but can you drop another tutorial talking about where to find the commands and stuff like that for z shell or for zsh? Loved the tutorial though!

Thank you so much. :)

Hi! This is amazing! However, when I run SSH, all of my customisations disappear! How can I make my Terminal copy the customisations over when I access my uni network?

When you said, I am just gonna push this to the side at 3:22, then magic happened, and your text editor just formatted itself to share the screen. How did you do that?

Great series thank you .

Thanks!! Corey

Great tutorial. I have a question: How to change the color of folders when you press ls command? So I want that color of files stay the same and the folder's color change. It would be easy to see where is folders and where is files

neat and clean vid, thank you!

HI! the color only appears when I source .bashrc. When I open a new terminal, the changes are gone, how do I solve this?

I loved this video. I sure wish you would have put the code at 14:36 in the description where we could play with it. Again, thank you for sharing your knowledge. I wish that I knew as much about Linux as you and Chris Titus do. Very impressive.

Very good video dude! I have one question though, how do I save these changes permanently? When I close the terminal and reopen it, it kinda resets everything to "normal state" meaning that I have to cd to my .bashrc file and run the command for the changes to be working.

Great videos! Is there a way to make the output of a command a different color, or even just default white? I've looked a few places and couldn't find a simplified explanation such as your videos have. Basically, I'm wanting my prompt to be one color(s), and then when I type in a command (like ls -la), I want the output of that to be white (or whatever color).

Hi I am getting a the folloeing error: PS1: Command not found. export: Command not found. When I am sourcing the file with intial two commands

Great Video!!! Thanks For explaining very nicely. I'm using macOS Catalina when I just try to modify the PS1 to "\u -> " and source it or reopen the terminal I'm getting \u instead of my user name. any help is really appreciated. Thank You.

So good!

IF THIS DOESNT WORK FOR YOU: -make a .zshrc file in home directory -edit that as you would .bashrc

Hey, nice video series, it's not in a playlist btw ;) Question, how can I change the HOME directory (bashFiels to a folder in the USER folder, without having and bash files in the USER folder to redirect to the USER/bashFiles ? using windows just incase my files system path looks off

Logged in a root, but can't insert a line after vim:ts=4:sw=4 Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

Do you know why there is a '[' appearing after press entry in the beginning of previous line?

Everytime I do this it show the string \u and whatever \letter I use.How to make this change the prompt.It is not working for my kali linux thx

Can anyone explain what the \[ and the \] are actually doing in Corey's bash commands?

Nice. Never knew how to do it with tput. Been using '\e[' to do it. Works a lot better with esc seq tbh but still this is way more readable. Also could you make a video on the PROMPT_COMMAND variable? I've heard you can setup custom functions inside this and then make PS1 print out even more useful stuff.

Best video man ty 🤗

Great video! I used your method to customized my prompt colors and it worked like a charm. However when I type the su command to log the root user I get my customized color scheme. My distribution defaults a root prompt red and I would like to keep that setting. How could I change my user prompt while keeping the root prompt with my distro defaults?

Hello Corey, I'm a big fan trying to learn python from your tutorials. Today I made a major mistake; I went into my .zshrc file, uncommented line 51; now when I open the terminal it opens for approx. 2 sec. and closes. Here is the message (/Users/admin/.zshrc:51:uncomment) but screen is frozen, for 2 seconds, then nothing. Is there any advice? Thanks in advance.

The special characters (like \u etc) do not work for me at all (MacOS Catalina). Could someone tell me where I get these?

very useful thank you

Hey Corey and you explain how did you copy into 4 rows at the same time and most importantly how do i make the changes permanent??? Thanks

does this work for the linux as well?

Is this video for a windows user? I am using windows command prompt and I don't know if it has the bash script. Can anyone please help!

Hi Corey. How do you display an active virtualenv in the bash prompt?

In Ubuntu 18.04, I now seem to be getting "No value for $TERM and no -T specified" after login and before startup. The prompt still has all the colors and changes I made - and everything seems to work fine. Is the warning a result of these changes? And if so, is there a fix?

Hey Corey, can you please make a video in zsh. Cause when I’m doing the same thing in zsh, it is giving me incorrect results. Thanks

Hi Corey. Shouldn't $ change to # when logged in as root? Thanks for your videos.

What font and size do you use in Terminal? Can you show the settings?

When i type ls output of my dir background color is green i want to change it Please help me in making a video in it

too good yo

Can i remove this command line (Last login: Sun Jul 9 18:17:29 on ttys000) who keeps showing up?

Thank you!

Getting this error -bash: PS1: command not found any idea ?

Command Not Found error - Everything runs. I have the .bash_profile calling the .bashrc and it also calls the .bash_prompt from your next video on the Github options. The command does the right color coding and the Github worked to even do an install of its application. I am doing this all on a Mac Mini connected as a MAMP installed server set up on a local network and I can work that server via Screen Sharing from a Macbook Pro. I have: export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.0.8/bin:$PATH a an extra line in the .bashrc because I am using it to shift to a more current version of php than my native Mac version because I have it installed with Drupal 8. I have tried remarking it out, I have changed the order, I have added another export PATH around the initial bash calls and moved the more current php version call to the end to see if processing order and potential command differences between php version might be why I am getting the Command Not Found error. Like I said, all the functionality seems to work in the sense that the prompt changes are in place and php -v confirms the version update has run; but I still have a "Command Not Found" showing up before I see the modified prompt. I don't know if there are spaces or something in one set of commands in your video's that I am miss judging in this area ... if [ -f ~/.bash_prompt ]; then source ~/.bash_prompt fi Or do you have other thoughts as to the cause and what I should try.

thanks please upload video for shell scripting sir

P.S you can write and run the code to edit your Terminal In the Terminal

the colour looks great but when I start typing a command and then press backspace to the start of the line the entire line disappears. I can still type the command and there it doesn't produce and functional errors and the line reappears when I just press enter but it's annoying to work with. Do you have an idea as to what may be the problem? (I'm on mac). And thanks for the tutorial !

How can change the background of the terminal for CLI mode for the remote access. ..?

how do I make an alias to open any file? Like I want an alias o="open name.extension"

It seems that tput doesn't work in High Sierra, I can't change the color

all my commands in the terminal are displayed in the same line.. what might be the problem?

My bashrc file is already populated, so none of these are working.

That's a great video! But when I did the same in mac Big Sur the terminal only prompts the literal "/u" etc instead of username. Is there a way to solve this?

Someone can help me? Everything works fine but i'd like to customize the branch name color too but i don't know exactly how to do that ...

hello and how can I do to make the sign $ change to # when I enter like super user? please thank you

Make a bash scripting series! :)

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how do i make the file run automatically without having to type .bashrc everytime?

Can I do syntax highlighting for sql ?

Can you do a video for zsh? same colours :D

Did you try it on macOS High Sierra? It's not working for me

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Why does mine not even show my username, if I put this PS1="\u@\h \W -> " this is the actual outcome in the command line: \u@\h \W ->

How to print path of current working directory instead of \W?

I'm all over place.

\w don't work on my mac terminal

Doesnt work. Get spoilt when you do reverse search

Run CPP asm program in bash

Awesome stuff! PS1+ = "\[${THUMBS UP}\]"

Why do you use export PS1; ?