So, I spent last night mucking about with color codes and arcane /proc entries and came up with a prompt so bloated that it wouldn't look out of place in Microsoft Windows XP. Features:
- 2 lines
- Full path of CWD
- name of user, colorised (green if normal user, red if root)
- time/date
- one field alternating between the hostname in green or the text ``I am DIRTY!'' in red depending on whether the kernel has been tainted or not.
- One viral entry in the end which does not get printed but which echoes ``God wants you to visit eglug.org'' to ~/.bashrc (the idea being to trick unsuspecting users into using this prompt and generating free advertising in the most unethical way I can currently think of)
Planned Features:
- have code embedded in $PS1 which scans for open proxies in Catalunia and uses them to spoof e-mail to ielug requesting additional shipments of nokia phones
- Random insults in Belgian
- patching bash such that every command executed re-executes embedded commands within $PS1 (processor overhead? What processor overhead?)
I will post my PS1 here sometime today. It really is atrocious.
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you can embed ansi codes to make your bash prompt write in multiple areas of the terminal, useful for making a clock on the upper corners, a fortune in a randome place or XML compliant bash sessions.
cheers, Alaa
very interesting can you po
very interesting can you point to a tutorial to help me understand what you are saying? and how can i do such things
the best things in life are free --- so as myself
Sure
The best place to begin is
Then when you want the full thing,
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How about an ASCII art presen
How about an ASCII art presentation of GOATSE ??
Sure!
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$ man asciiview No manual
$ man asciiview
No manual entry for asciiview
Projeksiyon Kiralama