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Bash Prompts Collection
This web page is a child of the Bash Prompt HOWTO that I'm maintaining for the Linux Documentation Project. The HOWTO explains a lot more than I'm going to here.
My interest in Bash Prompts developed when I found "The BashPrompt Themes Project (now long deceased). User @ hostname and the full current working directory, with DOS-like appearance. Power Prompt 2 Supplies all kinds of info, and is so slow that I can't recommend it.
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