Add arrogance – believing that only your opinion matters or is correct – and it’s even worse. That mentality stifles innovation and progression. that the designers of the tools didn’t ever dream of and couldn’t have done without other tools in the first place! This is also a form of customisation) and throw in FOSS and it has so many options. I’ve been using unix for well over two decades and I have mates who have used it even longer my mother used it in the 80s if not 70s! Unix is a brilliant OS for so many reasons (the pipe: allowing creating tools/etc. Obviously people like this or else it wouldn’t exist and be shared – but nobody is telling you to implement on your system. If you don’t know what that means or what the implications are you shouldn’t be giving your opinion because it’s just arrogant and ignorant.
OR ALL USERS FULL STOP.ĭo so at your own peril…and when it comes to customising it by definition involves preference. NEVER EVER FALL INTO THE DELUSION YOU KNOW WHAT *ALL* YOUR USERS WANT. Here’s a reality all good programmers know: (Updated by Paul on to include colorized ls, Spock LLAP emoji prompt, and minor changes to overall UI – LLAP prompt requires modern version of OS X)Īs a computer programmer I am both bemused and amused that people are criticising this. This is a cool little trick that Lifehacker modified from Emilis Dambauskas, you can get a different variation for Linux at either of those sites if for some reason this one doesn’t work for you. This is a pretty nice way to customize the command line a bit and make it easier to read, but it’s not nearly as dramatic as TermKit or some of the other crazier options out there.Īs long as you’re using bash you should be able to do the same with other variations of unix too. This is what the revised Paul Prompt with Vulcan Emoji looks like, you can find this on Github:Īnd here’s the original version covered by AJ, with a simple divider but no color ls output and no Emoji prompt: bash_profile-backup and located in your home directory.
Remember if you want to revert this you can either delete the code from bash_profile or just go back and replace it with your backed up copy, named.
(If you have trouble viewing the embedded code, you can see the standard version here or opt for the excellent Vulcan Spock Salute version here) The embedded code below is the standard version: bash_profile and copy and paste the code below, depending on which you want to display: bash_profile with nano (or your preferred text editor):
Here’s how to do this, including how to make a backup of your existing bash profile in case you mess something up: To get this to work, you just need to paste a script into your.