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Customizing Your Terminal: Adding Color and Information to Your Prompt

February 5, 2016 by Corey Schafer Leave a Comment

In this video, we will be learning how to customize our terminal with dotfiles. In a previous video we learned about the difference between the .bash_profile and .bashrc files. And in this video we will be customizing those files in order to add color and information to our command prompt. In our next video we will be putting all of this together and exploring the real power of dotfiles, but before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s customize our prompt:

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Filed Under: Development, Terminal Tagged With: Command Line, Computer Science, Mac, OS X, Programming, Video

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