Prompt-Multiline

A bash script for a concise, multi-line color prompt inspired by liquidprompt and based on information in Bash Prompt HOWTO

No	Color Scheme: Ubuntu Default	Color Scheme: Solarized Dark
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1: When in home directory, 2: (Almost) full prompt, 3: Superuser

First prompt line: (chroot)user@machine:/working/dir

Second prompt line: [history-no](backgroun-jobs running/stopped)[git-info] [last retrun code]$

Basic Usage

To test drive, clone the project:

git clone https://github.com/htorun/prompt-multiline.git

Source the bash script prompt-multiline/prompt-multiline:

source ./prompt-multiline/prompt-multiline

To return to the previous prompt enter prompt_off, and to turn the prompt-multiline on again enter prompt_on.

To make it permanent, add the following lines to your ~/.bachrc (replace <install-path> with the path to prompt-multiline bash script

pm_path=<install-path>
if [ -f "$pm_path" ]; then
    # Only source multi-line prompt script when this is an interactive shell
    case "$-" in
        *i*)
            source "$pm_path"
            ;;
    esac
fi
unset pm_path

License

Licensed under the AGPL version 3

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.