Fancy Colorful Shell

Back in the past when I was in college in Fasilkom University of Indonesia. Most of my friends and I were used to play with Linux shell and its color feature to make shell more fun and enjoyable. I think I’ve already forgot how to make my shell colorful until I goggled and summarized from many sources how to make basic shell information colorful:

Try this:

1. Do all of this as root
2. Put this script Revision of Color Script to /root/script/color (or anything as you wish) and make sure it is executable by every users (chmod o+x /path/to/the/script)
3. Include the file in your home $HOME/.bashrc by doing the following action
   • Comment all lines containing “PS1=…”. For example # PS1=’${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ ‘
   • Put “source /root/script/color” below it (or for global affect, put it on /etc/bash.bashrc)
4. Now, re-login!