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?
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
Ignacio's answer is right, but here is another symbol, which in my font looks better:
U+26A1 HIGH VOLTAGE SIGN
(⚡
)There are a few lightning-bolt-like symbols in Unicode, among them is U+2607 LIGHTNING (☇
), though anything approaching realistic would require a special font with an actual lightning bolt glyph.