The Prompt

In this lesson, you will learn how to set up your main prompt, as well as other types of prompts and related shell variables.

Now that you’ve learned about escapes and special characters you are in a position to understand how the bash prompt can be set up and controlled.

How Important is this Lesson?

This lesson is not essential, but most people find it interesting and maybe fun to learn about.

The PS1 Variable

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