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From: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: bash prompt question
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* François Patte <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr> in comp.unix.shell:
> Wanting to personalize my bash prompt I wrote in my .bashrc file (with
> the help of "Learning the BASH shell"):

>  export PS1='\[\e[1;35m\]\u@\h -\d- ${text} \W\[\e[m]\]\$ '

While it is useful to play with PS1 for learning purposes, to be able to customize
your prompt easily and in a powerful way, I advise the use of a framework prompt.
There are many of them, one I really like is Starship:

https://starship.rs/
https://github.com/starship/starship

-- 
DW