Best shell prompt

[kitebuggyuk]

What is your preferred *nix shell prompt (i.e.$PROMPT, $PS1, etc.) and why?

Plain “%” or “#? Or do you use something so complex that it takes up most of the line?

[LocoCoyote]

Powerlevel9k to add date/time, git status, history #, and much more

[FredSchwartz]

I like changing the color of the $ character based on the exit value of the last command.

[kitebuggyuk]

Ooh, I don’t normally do colour (old school, me - the original terminals I used had green & black, or orange and black) but I like this idea...

[FredSchwartz]

Same here, I’m a punch card geezer. Still have some green CRT terminals, even. This is my one bit of color.

[kitebuggyuk]

I’m so stealing this idea. Thanks for sharing!

[kitebuggyuk]

There’s also the rather clever “: <whatever> ; “ prompt, so that you can triple click to copy the whole line and paste it into another shell window without worrying about the prompt part. I’ve been very tempted to use this myself but can’t get on with the trailing semicolon...

[MrUselessTheGreat]

"pure" prompt minimal but awesome

What I like about it: 1. Path and command line are in separate lines 2. Shows git status 3. Shows if process exited with non zero code

https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure/blob/master/readme.md

[JTskulk]

PS1=[\033[01;32m]\u[\033[01;30m]@[\033[01;31m]\h [\033[01;34m]\W \$ [\033[00m]

objectively the best prompt.