Color My Prompt

If you wanna make your prompt colorful with Git branch name / Ruby version

function color_my_prompt { local __user_and_host="\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h" local __cur_location="\[\033[01;34m\]\w" local __git_branch_color="\[\033[31m\]" local __ruby_color="\[\033[35m\]" local __ruby_version='`ruby -v | sed -E s/^\\\\\*\ $.+$$/$\\\\\1$\ /`' local __git_branch='`git branch 2> /dev/null | grep -e ^* | sed -E s/^\\\\\*\ $.+$$/$\\\\\1$\ /`' local __prompt_tail="\[\033[01;34m\]$" local __last_color="\[\033[00m\]" #export PS1="$__user_and_host $__cur_location $__ruby_color$__ruby_version $__prompt_tail$__last_color " export PS1="$__user_and_host $__cur_location $__git_branch_color$__git_branch$__prompt_tail$__last_color " } color_my_prompt ------------------------------------------------------ In ~/.bashrc, Add above lines into bottom of the file.

Sample output(on terminal):

ranjith@ranjith ~/Blog/octopress (source) $

Here,

ranjith@ranjith   => User name and Host name
~/Blog/octopress  => Working directory name
source            => Git branch name

Ranjithkumar Ravi

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