BoringTerminals.md

Why So Serious?

On Mac OS X (and possibly other systems) you can brighten up your terminal prompt with emojii's like this: ![Image of Yaktocat] (https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Doerge/02cb0e4d572f9b0f0cd8/raw/showcase.png)

To do this, you should modify the special shell variable PS1 in ~/.profile (or in another config file of your choosing). Put the following snippets on unique lines in that file.

You can either put a single emojii in you prompt, which will always show up when you open a new terminal:

export PS1="\\h:\\w🍔:"

or randomly select one from a list, just like the image above:

emojii=('🍔' '🍰' '🎂' '🍌' '🍭' '🍒' '👾' '🍗' '🍪' '🍫' '🍩' '⛵' '🚀' '🐳' '🐠' '🐸' '🐚' '🌴' '🐙')
export PS1="\\w${emojii[$RANDOM % ${#emojii[@]} ]}  "

You can pick different emojii's by going to Edit/Special Characters/Emojii in most editors.

To top it off I recommend google'ing the PS1 variable to customize the prompt to your liking!

Sources:

• Some-guy-on-the-Internet-once-showed the single emojii-thing. (Source wanted!)

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