PS1=' '

A space, only to know that the previous command ended (as while the previous command is running, cursor is at column 0).

But today I use u@H$ cause I have > 20 servers, I need to know at least the hostname ^-^

how about adding some themes to the bash-color-tools?

-C

I'm newbie, i was wonder after each time reboot the prompt will be the same as default one! is there any way to make permanently?
appreciate your help

Thanks

If you're doing that much with your prompt, you may want to consider switching to zsh as your shell.

If you were in zsh, you could have:

• *two* awesome prompts, one on the left and one on the right. (The RPROMPT automatically disappears if you type into that area.)
• And built-ins to show your VCS info (git/svn/... etc).
• better command-line completion
• And a flying car.(++)

++ flying car may require some assembly.

thx! OK, after looking into this, after changing 'sed -nu' to 'sed -n', what's actually happening is that there _is_ no /proc system in Darwin, so the eval command either hangs or throws an error.
Sucks for us Mac users!

Ya some versions (mostly older) of sed don't support the -u unbuffered option, I've since removed it since it's a bit overkill anyway and multi-platform robustness is always the goal with bash. It would be helpful if you explained more about what you mean by 'hanging' without the -u option. It's probably related to something other than the u option, a $ set +xv will tell us why (please share what you find).

Thanks for the feedback bro, I use mac's all the time too (though I greatly prefer nix.)

[2873:2872 0:73] 01:50:46 Tue Jun 08 [user@host:/dev/pts/0 +1] ~
(1:73)$

Please, could you care to explain some chunks of the output?

[2873:2872 0:73] <- what are this?

[user@host:/dev/pts/0 +1] <- what's the +1 here?

(1:73)$ <- I understand the 73 here is the number of commands I've in the history. What about the 1? And what's the practical use of this numbers?

Thanks in advance.

        # now this is where things gets really farout, figure out how this works and you'll learn alot
        export AA_P="export PVE="\033[m\033[38;5;2m"$(( `sed -nu "s/MemFree:[\t ]\+\([0-9]\+\) kB/\1/p" /proc/meminfo` / 1024 ))"\033[38;5;22m/"$((`sed -nu "s/MemTotal:[\t ]\+\([0-9]\+\) kB/\1/p" /proc/meminfo`/ 1024 ))MB"\t\033[m\033[38;5;55m$(< /proc/loadavg)\033[m";echo -en "$PVE""
        eval "$AA_P" && export PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a;(($SECONDS % 10==0 ))&&eval "$AA_P";echo -en "$PVE";' && eval "$AA_P";
 
        # sets up the prompt
        PS1='[e[mne[1;30m][$$:$PPID j:![e[1;30m]][e[0;36m] T d [e[1;30m][[e[1;34m]u@H[e[1;30m]:[e[0;37m]${SSH_TTY} [e[0;32m]+${SHLVL}[e[1;30m]] [e[1;37m]w[e[0;37m] n($SHLVL:!)$ ';