On Feb 20, 2004, at 2:29 pm, Kirk McElhearn wrote: > I'm helping Rob Griffiths update his Mac OS X Hints book for Panther, > and > one of the hints is about customizing the shell prompt. Naturally, the > Jaguar edition uses tcsh, so I'm updating this for bash... > > I'm looking for a long, cool, complex, multi-line prompt to use as an > example... For anyone still interested in this subject, a very long thread is running on Gentoo-user, containing many examples. <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/72360> HTH, Stroller.