This page has a pretty good explanation, although the syntax is a bit different in csh. Here's what I came up with: set prompt="%{\e[32;1m%}%n%{\e[37m%}@%{\e[33m%}%m%{\e[37m%}:%{\e[36m%}%~%{\e[37m%}"\$"%{\e[0m%} " # root variation: set prompt="%{\e[31;1m%}root%{\e[37m%}@%{\e[33m%}%m%{\e[37m%}:%{\e[36m%}%/%{\e[37m%}#%{\e[0m%} "

Setting the prompt is done with: in your case you need to notify csh that certain elements have zero width by enclosing them in {% and %}: You can find some more info and comparison of in this table, on that page you also find some info on the various colours. The C-shell (both csh and tcsh) equivalent of .bashrc is .cshrc.

Jul 11, 2021 · I wan to change the color of my csh shell. I've edited my .cshrc file, following the instruction I've found here, and included this in it: set yellow="%{\033[1;33m%}" set end="%...

In C Shell, add the following lines to your .cshrc: make a command doprompt that sets the prompt to the working directory. set the prompt the first time around. alias the cd command to change directories and reset the prompt. The doprompt command works fine. However, the cd alias causes problems.

Feb 7, 2008 · I need to print different lines in different font types and sizes to the terminal window from csh script. I can easily change font color and print characters in bold or underline, but cannot figure out a way to change font.

Setting the escape first offers a more portable solution that can be quickly modified to apply to other shells. The syntax can be changed for ksh by replacing 'set' with 'export', and replacing 'prompt' with 'PS1'. Tweak the syntax to suit your requirements.

May 7, 2019 · How do I change my cshell prompt to modify the colors and what text is displayed? For csh or tcsh, the environment variable PS1 is meaningless: the prompt is actually configured using a shell variable named prompt. So the syntax you'll need is:

Dec 5, 2012 · #.cshrc - csh resource script, read at beginning of execution by each shell # see also csh(1), environ(7). # more examples available at /usr/share/examples/csh/

Apr 20, 2022 · cshell Prompt is mainly composed of two parts, one is the color definition, the other is the information display. Below we discuss these two parts separately. All colors are written in the form of \033[xxxm e94ef03e18393e35354504b042ef2dd5---, xxx are parameters separated by semicolons. C++. python3. shell. Not widely supported.

May 29, 2021 · In terminal commnad line, prompt current path and color the segment as wanted. set end="%{\033[0m%}" # This is needed at the end...