Hide All Information in the BASH Prompt

Understanding Default BASH prompt

Before customizing the bash shell prompt first understand the default bash prompt. This default prompt looks like follows:...

Understanding Different Parts of BASH Prompt

To customize the bash prompt, first, we should understand how the bash prompt works. Bash provides the Prompt Statement. There are four bash prompt statement...

Customize Bash Prompt In Linux

The bash prompt can be customized from the ~/.bashrc file. This file contains the prompt Statement. This file is present in the home directory of the user....

Change Bash Prompt in Linux Permanently

To change the bash prompt permanently, we can edit the file ~/.bashrc and change the values of the PS1. To edit this file you can use any editor, but in this tutorial, we are going with nano editor, because it is easy to use. Now to open the ~/.bashrc file, use the following command:...

Create a Temporary Change to the BASH Prompt

We can change our bash prompt temporarily using the export command, this prompt will work for the current session. To change the temporary bash shell prompt, use the following command:...

Modify “username@hostname” part in the Bash prompt

Most of the Linux distributions contain the username@hostname as a bash prompt. We can change it to anything we want. We have to just modify the value of the PS1 variable. In the above two sections, we have seen how to modify the value of the PS1 characters permanently and temporarily. Change the value of PS1 according to your need. So now  to change the username@hostname to “myprompt@linux> ” we can set the value of PS1 to...

Customizing the PS1 Format

To customize the PS1 prompt, we need to edit the content of the PS1 prompt. The PS1 contains some characters followed by the backslash characters. Following are the same characters that are written in the PS1 prompt:...

Popular Custom Options for BASH Prompts

Now let’s see how can we customize the bash prompt using the options provided by the bash shell for the prompt. Before adding any option to the prompt, use the \ character before the options....

Hide All Information in the BASH Prompt

To prevent the showing username and hostname into prompt just don’t use the h and u characters in the PS1 variable. Just use the W character to display the path of the current directory....

Differentiate Root User From Normal User

The bash prompt is differentiated using the $ and # characters at the end of the prompt. The $ character is used for the standard user and the # character is used for the root user....

tput command

tput is a command that provides the terminal dependent information to the shell .tput command queries the term info database for the information. Now let’s see how we can use the tput command to change the prompt color. Now let’s see how to change the color of the background and foreground of the prompt....

How to Change BASH Prompt Color

We can change the color of the bash prompt. Here is one example:...

How to Reset BASH Changes to Default Settings

If you want the shell back as it is, then we can do that. At the start of this article, we have created the backup file the ~/.bashrc file. Now to get back our original bash prompt, we can use that file. Use the following command:...