Change color according to user

16 Years Ago ankur.dhoot 0 146 Views

This code changes color of prompt according to user, suppose if user is root then color would be red and normal user would have color black. This'll diffrentiate in users.

shell-scripting

if [ $(id -u) -eq 0 ];
then # you are root, set red colour prompt
  PS1="\[$(tput setaf 1)\]\u@\h:\w #\[$(tput sgr0)\]"
else # normal
  PS1="\u@\h:\w $"
fi

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