Comments on: Changing the colour of the root prompt in a bash shell http://blog.roachy.net/2008/02/25/changing-the-colour-of-the-root-prompt-in-a-bash-shell/ A digital notebook of technical experiences Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:10:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Paul Roach http://blog.roachy.net/2008/02/25/changing-the-colour-of-the-root-prompt-in-a-bash-shell/#comment-216 Paul Roach Tue, 05 May 2009 19:28:04 +0000 http://technicalmumblings.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-216 Tweaked this now... function setprompt { local RED="$(tput setaf 1)" local RESET="$(tput sgr0)" if [ `id -u` = 0 ] # check if user is root then PS1="$RED root@$HOSTNAME:# $RESET " else PS1="$USERNAME@$HOSTNAME:$ $RESET " fi } setprompt Tweaked this now…

function setprompt
{
local RED=”$(tput setaf 1)”
local RESET=”$(tput sgr0)”
if [ `id -u` = 0 ] # check if user is root
then
PS1=”$RED root@$HOSTNAME:# $RESET ”
else
PS1=”$USERNAME@$HOSTNAME:$ $RESET ”
fi
}
setprompt

]]> By: DaFoot http://blog.roachy.net/2008/02/25/changing-the-colour-of-the-root-prompt-in-a-bash-shell/#comment-179 DaFoot Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:57:27 +0000 http://technicalmumblings.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-179 Interesting stuff.... looks like what I've been looking for, almost. When I login as root I get the red but the prompt is the string literal rather than evaluated as root@machine# or something like that. Suspect an issue with type of quotes. Thanks for giving me an idea where to start from :) Interesting stuff…. looks like what I’ve been looking for, almost. When I login as root I get the red but the prompt is the string literal rather than evaluated as root@machine# or something like that.

Suspect an issue with type of quotes.

Thanks for giving me an idea where to start from :)

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