On 2021-12-03 11:17+0000 Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Is there a way to set the colour of a bash prompt according to
> whether the user has SSH'd in?
>
> This machine is a compile host for some others on the LAN, and it
> would be helpful if it were more obvious that I'm connected to
> another machine. Of course, the standard prompt tells me the machine
> name, but something more conspicuous would help.
When you are connected via SSH, the environment variable SSH_CONNECTION
is set. I store the color in a variable and set it to yellow if
`[[ -n "${SSH_CONNECTION}" ]]`. I can't give you the exact snippet
since I use Zsh, but it should be possible to use a variable as color
in bash's prompt?
Kind regards, tastytea
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