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[Aereshaa]

The title says it all. On your computer what shell do you use for interactive use, scripting, etc?

[v0id]

Nice idea of a poll.

I voted bash.

[Aereshaa]

Can you beat my l33t prompt?

Made with the power of zsh!

PR_TIMER="0"
PR_PWD="/etc"

function precmd { #executes each prompt
 local TERMWIDTH
 ((TERMWIDTH = ${COLUMNS} - 1))
 local PRWIDTH
 ((PRWIDTH = `whoami | wc -m` + `tty | wc -m` + `pwd | wc -m` + `date | wc -m` + 16))
 local DSHES
 ((DSHES = TERMWIDTH - PRWIDTH))
 local L_PWD
 L_PWD=$(/home/oren/bin/strhash `pwd`);
 if ((`/home/oren/bin/utm` > PR_TIMER + 30 || L_PWD != PR_PWD)) then
  echo -e "/==(\e[37m$(whoami)\e[0m)on(\e[37m$(tty)\e[0m)in(\e[35m$(pwd)\e[0m)>$(/home/oren/bin/repstr "$DSHES" "-")<(\e[31m$(date)\e[0m)==\\"
  PR_TIMER=`/home/oren/bin/utm`
  PR_PWD=$(/home/oren/bin/strhash `pwd`);
 fi
}
PS1="|==%% "
RPS1="<<(%*)==|"
PS2="|--> "
PS3="|--- "
PS4="|--- "

:cool:

[v0id]

I sure can. My .bashrc:

PS1="$ "

It all depends on who you are. I prefer it simple, and that's why I don't have all the fancy stuff in my config.

[v0id]

That's the same reason why I use bash. According to Wikipedia is zsh a collection of the most useful features of bash, ksh and tcsh, so might be worthy a try?

A bit off-topic: Does anyone know how to configure/customize the real terminal, and not just a terminal emulator (like bash, zsh, etc.)? I've got a new box which I installed Debian on. To keep it fast and clean I've chosen not to use a the X window system. I can however not really change the look of the terminal, so when I get into deep directories the line always break, because of the lenghty prompt. It sucks. Any tips?

[Aereshaa]

Jordan said:

I use bash I also like small prompts so that the line doesn't loop when I'm in deep sub-directories. I use about the same as v0id. How come you use zsh? I suppose I use bash because that is what I started with and that is default now.

Ah, but mine adjusts the number of dashes so that it never loops, and I'm working on a way to trunctate the path when it finally is too long.
I use zsh because my first computer had all of them installed, even rc (from plan 9). So I tested each of them, and found that I liked zsh's syntax best.