Questions tagged [prompt]
The prompt is what asks a user for their interactive input
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What is the origin of the UNIX $ (dollar) prompt?
The UNIX prompt uses a $ symbol to indicate that your input is expected.
I was wondering why this symbol was chosen—if there is a reason. Dollar just seems a little unexpected. A > symbol would ...
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Avoid password prompt for keys and prompts for DN information
I am using following code to generate keys:
apt-get -qq -y install openssl;
mkdir -p /etc/apache2/ssl;
openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024;
openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr;
cp ...
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How can I display the absolute path in bash prompt?
I currently have my bash PS1 set to something like this:
PS1="\[\`if [[ \$? = "0" ]]; then echo '\e[32m\h\e[0m'; else echo '\e[31m\h\e[0m' ; fi\`:\w\n\$ "
How can I make it show the absolute path ...
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How can I block the “Sign in with Google” prompt on websites? [duplicate]
On many websites that require login, those annoying Google login prompts appear:
There are several tutorials on the Internet on how to avoid this, for example, this one on How-To Geek, which suggest ...
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Schedule a task with admin privileges without a user prompt in windows 7
In windows 7, I'd like to schedule a program to be run with administrative privileges, without having the user need to respond to a prompt (which requests elevated privileges) every time the scheduled ...
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Tmux and ZSH custom prompt : bug with window name
I have customized my ZSH prompt with oh-my-zsh to make it more readable and add information about git if I'm in a repository.
Example :
bob@inf [~/docs] %
bob@inf [~/src/nicest] master % (in a git ...
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Why does this bash prompt sometimes keep part of previous commands when scrolling history?
My bash prompt, which I'll admit to have stolen from a few places and cobbled together, will sometimes add part of previous commands to its length when scrolling the bash history with up/down arrows.
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How do I hide the path in command line prompt on Windows?
I'm working on Windows 7 using the cmd console.
How do I hide the path in the prompt?
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How can I put a newline in my zsh prompt without causing terminal redraw issues?
I'm trying to fix a minor (but annoying) issue with my zsh prompt. The problem I'm seeing is that when I'm using a terminal in a GUI OS environment (for example, Terminal.app or iTerm 2 on OS X 10.7.2)...
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Escape non-printing characters in a function for a Bash prompt
In a Bash Prompt (PS1 variable), I'm calling a function to potentially add text to the prompt: export PS1="\u@\h \$(my_function) \$ "
However, the function in the prompt contains ANSI color codes ...
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CMD prompt window pops up and instantly disappears periodically
Windows 10 - Every 10 minutes or so, a command line window flashes on my computer. I'm afraid I may have been infected by something. I've been staring at the Task Manager (and process explorer) for ...
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Right align part of prompt
I am sure that I have seen someone have a part of their prompt aligned to the right in their terminal window and then have the actual cursor start on a second line. I know that I can achieve the ...
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Why doesn't "cd D:" change the command context to D:? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Using cd Command in Windows Command Line, Can't Navigate to D:\
Every time I want to change directory context to another drive (D, E, F, or whatever..) on a Windows ...
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How to Run an app as Administrator without the prompt?
When I start SQL Server Management Studio 2008, I get an error that's been around forever and is documented here. One of the suggestions to fix it that actually worked was to start SSMS with Run as ...
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MySQL command line color prompt
I want to add colors to the MySQL command line color prompt.
I have so far in a script (database.sh):
mysql -uroot -hlocalhost -A --prompt="\u@\h:\d> "
I would like root to be red, @ to be blue, ...
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Get Function Into PS1 (Zsh)?
This works in bash (parse_git_branch is a defined function)
export PS1="\$(parse_git_branch)"
But I cannot figure out the equivalent in zsh.
Note: If I do
PROMPT="$(parse_git_branch)"
It seems ...
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zsh right-justify in ps1
I'd like a multi-line zsh prompt with a right alined part, that will look something like this:
2.nate@host:/current/dir 16:00
->
I know about RPROMPT ...
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What is rootfs# and what can you do with it?
I have been dropped to a [rootfs /]# prompt many times when booting my distro failed. Usually I found I couldn't fix the problem with the limited commands available, so I would use any spare Live CD I ...
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Pushing my PS1 prompt over ssh
I use a specific "PS1" prompt that I like. I share a few logins with other other people on a few different servers. I was wondering if there was a way to specify in my local bash profile a remote ...
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How to leave the execute prompt in zsh
In a zsh, maybe I pressed Alt+X by mistake,
but now I'm stuck and this execute: _ prompt won't leave.
Pressing Ctrl+C does nothing.
If I press Enter it tries to complete what I typed.
Pressing Enter ...
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Removing the useless space at the end of the right prompt of zsh ($RPROMPT)
In zsh, there is always a space character at the right of my right prompt. I tried with a very simple .zshrc such as:
PROMPT="#"
RPROMPT="*"
There is a always a space after the * on the right of the ...
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How to show the current Vi mode when using Vi keybindings in the shell?
I use the vi keybindings in my tcsh shell.
Now, I don't know which vi mode I'm in (insert mode or command mode), which leads to a lot of frustration.
Does anyone know of a way to show the current ...
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Get current window number for bash prompt
I want to replace status bar with bash prompt displaying window number like ①. How can I get current window number in the shell?
There's TMUX_PANE env variable, unfortunately no TMUX_WINDOW.
The ...
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How do I fix my prompt in emacs shell-mode?
I'm doing some programming on a colleague's machine. He has a version of emacs (23.1.1) I haven't used before. My problem is that when I go to shell-mode, my bash prompt looks like this:
^[]0;jay@...
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Which directory does path `//` represent in Linux?
When I want to go back to upper level directory in Linux by typing cd .., I typo-ed cd //. To my great surprise, no errors are reported. What's more the prompt becomes username@hostname://$. ls ...
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Why does setting the bash prompt (PS1) manually cause root to have a $ instead of a #?
I'm on CentOS 6.4. By default the root user's prompt has # symbol, i.e. it looks something like [root@myserver ~]# .
echo $PS1 prints out [\u@\h \W]\$;
but if I do PS1="[\u@\h \W]\$" (which shouldn't ...
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Making Linux shell prompt show last return value
I'm currently on a Linux machine and the shell prompt is showing me the last return value and number of executed commands (picture included, with these numbers shown in purple).
My own computer doesn'...
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Kill a process which is listening on port 8080
I perform the following on Win7 32-Bit in the command prompt:
netstat -ano | findstr 8080
it returns with:
TCP 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 1896
how might I ...
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Multiline RPROMPT in zsh
I know you can define multiline prompts in zsh:
PROMPT='
test
→ '
But I was wondering, why can't you define multiline right prompts? I tried:
RPROMPT='
test
still test '
but nothing shows up. Is ...
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Display only the current directory name (not the full path) in Windows CMD Prompt
In Windows CMD.EXE, I have my prompt string set to $P$G,
so, if my current working directory is
C:\Some\long\folder\inner
my prompt is like this:
C:\Some\long\folder\inner>
I want it to show only ...
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in zsh, how do I get pwd in my prompt?
I've recently switched from bash to zsh,
but it annoys me that I can't see what directory I'm in (MacOSX)
how do I get 'pwd' to show up in my prompt?
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Lightning bolt for prompt (PS1)
I've seen on a few screencasts a while back where someone had a lightning bolt instead of $ on the bash prompt.
Does anyone know how to do this?
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Is it possible to get bash to display the first letter of each directory in my working path?
For example working in:
/home/stuart/src/project/com/example/package
/usr/lib/python2.6
would appear as:
~/s/p/c/e/package$
/u/l/python2.6$
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How to change the prompt of mc's subshell
I often use the subshell of mc.
So I want the promt of mc-subsell to be different form the primary shell.
Say, how can I change the sub-prompt like this:
mc:$Current_dir$
many thanks
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Custom prompt botched during history and control-a in OS X's Terminal.app using Bash
I customized my prompt in .bash_profile to look like this:
export PS1="\w \e[0;32m\$(vcprompt -f '[%n:%b]')\e[m\$ "
Now, when I press up arrow to go back through history, find the one I want, then ...
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Windows 7 batch file: Why are these IF blocks keeping me from assigning variables to a value?
Here's the broken batch file:
@echo off
if prod==prod (
if xps==xps (
set i1=prodxpsi1
set i2=prodxpsi2
set e1=prodxpse1
set e2=prodxpse2
) else (
set ...
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How to redirect output of a command to a file when the command will prompt user inputs?
I have a command which will prompt user for some inputs and then output the result to the terminal. I typed the command like below to redirect the output to a file:
$the_command > abc.txt
But it ...
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How to prevent password popup everytime for changing network configuration in OS X Mountain Lion?
I have a few network scripts that I used under OS X Lion that automatically created a ssh connection and then changed network configuration on my local machine to run traffic through the ssh tunnel. ...
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Right and fast way to test git directory and git branch?
While trying to set up my new fish shell prompt, I ended up testing ways to get the branch name and also testing if I was on a git repository. I have found (1) git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD, (2) git ...
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ZSH: change prompt just before command is run
I would like to have a two-line prompt in zsh, but collapse it to a very small one just after pressing ENTER, so that it doesn't show up in the terminal scroll history. After typing two commands, the ...
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On the Windows commandline, how do I get a dynamic prompt that tells me where in the filesystem I am?
I am trying to modify my CMD, to show only the current directory name dynamically, like:
Desktop $
When I switch the folder, it must be updated.
It is not required to be code in a pure batch file. It ...
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What's the easiest way to prepend the current time to the fish prompt?
I'd like to see the current time in my fish prompt so that I can always see for example when I started the last command. I don't want to install extensions.
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Avoiding the `npm login` (`npm adduser') email prompt in npm & jFrog artifactory
When I do npm login (alias of npm adduser) I ALWAYS get prompted for my email address.
Username: ...
Password: ...
Email: (this IS public) ...
This is obnoxious. I've done npm config -g set email .....
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How to hide commands in the prompt of Windows 10 from a batch file?
I want to hide the commands in the prompt that opened from a batch file. Example:
This is how it normally is:
This is how I want it to be:
It would be good as well if there was a way of output ...
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How to fix my bash prompt with long lines?
I have the following bash prompt:
YELLOW="\[\033[0;33m\]"
GREEN="\[\033[0;32m\]"
RESET='\e[0m'
export PS1="$GREEN[\W]$YELLOW \$(__git_ps1 \"(%s) \")$RESET\\$ "
It looks like this:
Which is what I ...
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Bash prompt "variables" not working?
I have added this into my ~/.bashrc, to change the prompt:
PS1='[\u@\h \w]\$ '
However, it is not showing what I want. I believe this is meant to show my username and possibly the directory that I ...
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~/.profile not being executed when Terminal opens? [OS X 10.6.8]
Somehow my bash prompt got changed to "elementary:~ steven$" and I want to change it back to the default prompt. I've added the following first to ~/.bashrc then to ~/.profile:
export PS1="\s-\v\$ "
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How to find the build / UBR / kernel version of Windows 10 using command-line (cmd)
I would like to know the basic commands in prompt windows. Therefore, I want to begin by knowing the command that return details of my operating system like kernel version / build and UBR (Update ...
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git commit hash in zsh prompt
I'd like to see the current commit hash (just the first 8 or so characters) in my zsh prompt.
I have this so far: https://github.com/calebmeyer/cpm-zsh-theme/blob/master/cpm.zsh-theme#L3
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true colors in bash prompt?
Is it possible to use true colors in bash prompt? I'm using iTerm2 on MacOS, which does support true colors. But not sure how I use true colors for my bash prompt.
At the moment I'm using tput af <...
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