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[[!meta title="My Bash and Zsh prompt"]]
This article is for those who wonder how my very simple but helpful prompt
in the shell are created and the motivation behind it.
This article is for those who wonder how my very simple, but helpful prompt
in the shell is created and to learn the motivation behind it.
## How it looks like
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Zsh:
PS1="[%T] %B%m%b:%c%# "
PS1="[%T] %B%m%b:%c%# "
## Motivation
# I need the hostname to know on which box I am working
# Time is helpful for copy & paste in logs (and to not waste space with ***xclock***)
# Short directory name (\W, %c) is helpful, long paths make the prompt
* I need the hostname to know on which box I am working
* Time is helpful for copy & paste in logs (and to not waste space with ***xclock***)
* Short directory name (\W, %c) is helpful, long paths make the prompt
unusable and I usually know which tree I am in (if not: pwd helps)
# No need for **username@** like most distros do: If I am a user,
* No need for **username@** like most distros do: If I am a user,
I am ***nico*** (***$*** in bash, ***%*** in zsh). Otherwise I am root (***#***).
[[!tag config sysadmin unix]]