Make your shell colorful

You can easily changed your black ssh screen to colorful screen by using following steps.

1) Login to the server via SSH as root

2) Edit the .bash_profile file found in the /root directory & paste the following line:

vi  .bash_profile

export PS1="\[$(tput bold)$(tput setb 4)$(tput setaf 7)\]\u@\h:\w $ \[$(tput sgr0)\]"

Save & quit the file

Now re-login through a new/different session to see the fun

You can further more change the various attributes within the given line to try a variety of colours..

Ex: for blue background with command history number, try these:

export PS1='\e[1;31m\]\e[7m[\h - ${VIEW}\u ] [\w]\e[m\]\e[27m\n[\!]$'

Note : Please make sure to leave the current window running & check the changes in a new one


Vishwajit Kale
Vishwajit Kale blazed onto the digital marketing scene back in 2015 and is the digital marketing strategist of Hostripples, a company that aims to provide affordable web hosting solutions. Vishwajit is experienced in digital and content marketing along with SEO. He's fond of writing technology blogs, traveling and reading.

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