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How can I shorten the bash prompt's current path to one letter per directory?

I can't remember where, but I've already seen the bash prompt's current path shortened in an interesting way: every directory contained in the path is replaced by its first letter only. For instance: ...
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Bash Prompt Changes Colors on ls

My prompt is: PS1="\`if [ \$? = 0 ]; then echo \[\e[33m\]':)'\[\e[0m\]; else echo \[\e[31m\]':('\[\e[0m\]; fi\` \e[0;1m\w\e[1m\n\$ " The problem is when I use ls, the prompt changes colors to the ...
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Correct place to put colors of prompt (PS1)

Say I want to change the colors of my PS1, or for the sake of simplicity I just want to change the content, so I want to do this: PS1="touch me : " My problem, doubt is: If I put this in ...
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Long lines overlap in Bash PS1 customized prompt

I have configured a fancy two-line PS1 bash prompt, with server name, time, user name and other useful variables. PS1="\n\[\033[1;34m\]\342\226\210\342\226\210 \u @ $SERVER_NAME""$BBlue"" ...
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command prompt suddenly starts with (base) [closed]

For seemingly no reason today my command prompt added (base) as a prefix. I didn't change the shell or anything else. Neither the .bashrc or /etc/bash.bashrc files have (base) anywhere. The command ...
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How can I shorten my command line (bash) prompt?

Currently it is: michael@Castle2012-Ubuntu-laptop01:~/Dropnot/webs/rails_v3/linker/spec/controllers$ Outside of renaming my machine and directory structure... How could I make it be something ...
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~/.bashrc changes have no effect?

I have been trying to set some custom colors on the user@hostname:~$ on the terminal. I edited both ~/.bashrc and /etc/bash.bashrc Where it said: debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot... I just changed ...
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Changing colors for user/computer name and current directory in terminal

Is it possible to change the colors for the user@computer, the current directory and command parts of the terminal? I've already seen similar things with osx users, but I don't know how to do the same ...
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Shell Prompt Customization?

I have used oh_my_zsh (and tinkered with bash_it) on multiple systems and have generally been happy with it, though I hate it's auto-correction feature and generally turn it off. My usual shell is ...
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How to interpolate a variable immediately after a `$` or `\$` in the bash prompt?

I am using this function: function test(){ local var="hello" PS1="\u\$$var" } The output I am trying to get from the function is john$hello. But what I get is just john. If I add a space ...
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Problem to write long lines in terminal

I have defined a PS1 prompt multi-line in my server with Ubuntu 11.04. The problem occurs when I write a long command, the line cuts before the end of terminal and it continues at beginning the same ...
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How (and where) can one change 'user@host $:' pattern in gnome-terminal?

When I start terminal in Ubuntu, I see: ilya@HOST:~$ I need to add a timestamp to this, something like: 2011-10-09T09:32:00 ilya@HOST:~$ How can I configure this?
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Custom bash prompt is buggy

I followed some articles on how to change the prompt, I've got the result I was looking for, but when the cursor reach the end of the screen it doesn't go new line and tab completion it's strange. # ...
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Anomaly with bash PS1 definition

My root and admin user both have the same .bashrc file. The prompt section of the .bashrc is the following: if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then ...
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trim the terminal command prompt working directory

When using the terminal in a deep folder structure sometimes the prompt can take up most of the line. Is there any way in which I can trim the working directory? I know I can do PS1="\W >" to only ...