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#8 Customizing Your Bash Command Prompt

The Bash command prompt can be fairly dull by default.

In this episode we add some color to help differentiate between files, executables, symlinks, and directories. We'll also change the format of the command prompt with the current time and better formatting.

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# Linux
# .bashrc
PS1="[\t][\u@\h:\w]\$ "
alias ls="ls --color"
export LS_COLORS="ln=1;31;44:"

# OSX & BSD
# .bash_profile (or .bashrc)
PS1="[\t][\u@\h:\w]\$ "
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS exfxcxdxbxegebabagacad

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#8 Customizing Your Bash Command Prompt

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