Customizing Your Terminal: Adding Color and Information to Your Prompt

wow -- this was FUNAF! 🩵

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

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 ->

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

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.

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?

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?

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

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

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

Thanks Man.

For Big Sur and above

%n $USERNAME
%m The hostname up to the first ‘.’
%. Current directory
%% Character '%'
%~ Full directory

These need to be in the .zshrc file to be used for new terminals automatically

very nice explanation