Tue, 14 Oct 2008

Visual feedback of the exit status of the previous command in bash

Put this in your .bashrc, and the current directory in your PS1 will be printed green if the previous command had exit state 0, red otherwise. No more typing 'echo $?', ' && echo ok', '|| echo failed' etc on the command line.

::Read from here

( Inspired by this post )

posted on Tuesday, 14 Oct 2008 21:56 - link - tags: bash - path: / - 0 comments

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