Lightning bolt for prompt (PS1)
I've seen on a few screencasts a while back where someone had a lightning bolt instead of $ on the bash prompt.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Solution 1:
This page explains how to set your bash promt. As @ulidtko says, you can use ⚡ as one example of a lightning bolt symbol. To set this, use:
export PS1=⚡
You will, however, lose everything else in the prompt you had before (not just the $). What you had before depends on your distribution. On my Ubuntu 10.10 setup it's \[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ by default, which you can get by running echo $PS1. To use mine as an example, to just change the $ to a ⚡, run:
export PS1="\[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w⚡ "
To make this change across all bash shells, add the above line to your ~/.bashrc file.
The result is like this:
marcog@minime:~⚡ echo hello world
hello world
Solution 2:
Ignacio's answer is right, but here is another symbol, which in my font looks better: