Yesterday I did some tweaking to my bash prompt in Ubuntu and the final result really pleases me. I removed all informations (user, host and current working directory) and replaced it with a bold blue arrow (as seen on picture). The reason why I removed them is the fact those informations are already present in terminal’s title so little less redundancy is always a good thing for me. Plus I made it a little fancier. 🙂

There exist a lot of tutorials on the internet on how to customize you bash prompt but the first one I stumbled upon is this.