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How to Customize Bash Colors and Content in Linux Terminal Prompt

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Gabriel C??nepa
Jan 3, 2017

Today, Bash is the default shell in most (if not all) modern Linux distributions. However, you may have noticed that the text color in the terminal and the prompt content can be different from one distro to another.

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Gabriel C??nepa

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