Use the following codes and create your own personal PS1 Linux prompt that is functional and suites your taste.
- \a an ASCII bell character (07)
- \d the date in “Weekday Month Date” format (e.g., “Tue May 26?)
- \D{format} – the format is passed to strftime(3) and the result is inserted into the prompt string; an empty format results in a locale-specific time representation. The braces are required
- \e an ASCII escape character (033)
- \h the hostname up to the first part
- \H the hostname
- \j the number of jobs currently managed by the shell
- \l the basename of the shell’s terminal device name
- \n newline
- \r carriage return
- \s the name of the shell, the basename of $0 (the portion following the final slash)
- \t the current time in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format
- \T the current time in 12-hour HH:MM:SS format
- \@ the current time in 12-hour am/pm format
- \A the current time in 24-hour HH:MM format
- \u the username of the current user
- \v the version of bash (e.g., 2.00)
- \V the release of bash, version + patch level (e.g., 2.00.0)
- \w the current working directory, with $HOME abbreviated with a tilde
- \W the basename of the current working directory, with $HOME abbreviated with a tilde
- \! the history number of this command
- \# the command number of this command
- \$ if the effective UID is 0, a #, otherwise a $
- \nnn the character corresponding to the octal number nnn
- \\ a backslash
- \[ begin a sequence of non-printing characters, which could be used to embed a terminal control sequence into the prompt
- \] end a sequence of non-printing character