Setting Your Bash Shell Prompt

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"Characters to Add Information to the bash Prompt ! Shows the current command history number. This includes all previous commands stored for your username.

"# Shows the command number of the current command. This includes only the commands for the active shell.

"$ Shows the user prompt ($) or root prompt (#), depending on which user you are."

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