And yes, this needs it own post simply for the fact that this is an insane prompt. Heres what it is/can do:

1. Automatically shortens itself if the path is longer than 18 charachters
   This is what I’ve always wanted since I usually name my folders after the website URL — and I HATE 2 line prompts.
2. Changes to red if the last command didn’t have a return code of 0
3. Includes your bash history # for easy history command repeating
4. Is pretty neat and trim

Why is this rad?

Prompt Madness!

I’ll let this image explain what it does and how it looks…

I’m tossing up a text file here -> best_bash_prompt_ever.txt — since the escaping will probably be messed up.

export PROMPT_COMMAND='PS1="\[\033[0;33m\][\!]\`if [[ \$? = "0" ]]; then echo "\\[\\033[32m\\]"; else echo "\\[\\033[31m\\]"; fi\`[\u.\h: \`if [[ `pwd|wc -c|tr -d " "` > 18 ]]; then echo "\\W"; else echo "\\w"; fi\`]\$\[\033[0m\] "; echo -ne "\033]0;`hostname -s`:`pwd`\007"'