How to Change Putty / Terminal Prompt in Linux

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How to Change Putty / Terminal Prompt in Linux

to change the prompt in linux putty / terminal, you should issue the below command in putty / terminal and press enter.

PS1='MyPrompt:\w> '
export PS1

to save the prompt, add the two lines to your $HOME/.bashrc on the server

examples

prompt with working directory@username

PS1='\w@\u> '

prompt with hostname:working directory@username

PS1='\h:\w@\u> '

Options

Option	Description
\d	displays date, in "Weekday Month Date" format (e.g., "Tue May 26").
\h	displays hostname, first word . (e.g. mymachine) in hostname
\H	displays complete hostname
\j	displays number of jobs currently managed by the shell.
\l	displays basename of the shell's terminal device name.
\s	displays name of the shell, the basename of $0
\t	displays time, in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format.
\T	displays time, in 12-hour HH:MM:SS format.
\@	displays time, in 12-hour am/pm format.
\u	displays username of the current user.
\v	displays version of Bash (e.g., 2.00)
\V	displays release of Bash, version + patchlevel
\w	displays current working directory.
\W	displays basename of $PWD.
\!	displays history number of this command.
\#	displays command number of this command.
\$	displays $ if user is not root otherwise it displays #
\\	displays backslash in prompt
\[	Begin a sequence of non-printing characters.
\]	End a sequence of non-printing characters.

Coloring Prompt

PS1='\[\e[32m\]\u@\h:\w\[\e[0m\] '

the above prompt change the putty prompt color to Green

Color Codes

Code	Description	Example
30	Dark Grey	PS1='\[\e[30m\]\u@\h:\w\[\e[0m\] '
31	Red	PS1='\[\e[31m\]\u@\h:\w\[\e[0m\] '
32	Green	PS1='\[\e[32m\]\u@\h:\w\[\e[0m\] '
33	Yellow	PS1='\[\e[33m\]\u@\h:\w\[\e[0m\] '
34	Blue	PS1='\[\e[34m\]\u@\h:\w\[\e[0m\] '
35	Purple	PS1='\[\e[35m\]\u@\h:\w\[\e[0m\] '
36	Turquoise	PS1='\[\e[36m\]\u@\h:\w\[\e[0m\] '
37	Light Gray	PS1='\[\e[37m\]\u@\h:\w\[\e[0m\] '