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August 29, 2013 21:53
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Make ssh prompts a bit more helpful - show the more informative hostname. These usually would default to something a bit more cryptic like cerickson@ln417 ~: $, as indicated by SERVER_NAME_HERE. (Note: this is for Ubuntu, generally)
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# uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned | |
# off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window | |
# should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt | |
force_color_prompt=yes | |
if [ -n "$force_color_prompt" ]; then | |
if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then | |
# We have color support; assume it's compliant with Ecma-48 | |
# (ISO/IEC-6429). (Lack of such support is extremely rare, and such | |
# a case would tend to support setf rather than setaf.) | |
color_prompt=yes | |
else | |
color_prompt= | |
fi | |
fi | |
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then | |
# Remove this line | |
# PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ ' | |
# Add this line (in addition to color force on above) | |
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@SERVER_NAME_HERE\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ ' | |
else | |
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ ' | |
fi |
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