Can I change the input color of my bash prompt to something different than the terminal default

Question

My default terminal color is gray, that\'s fine.

My bash prompt displays a bunch of colors, this works fine:

PS1=\"${COLOR_RED}\\u${COLOR_WHITE}@${CO         


        

Answer 1

Simply add the following line:

export PS1=" \[\033[34m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\]\w\[\033[31m\]\[\033[00m\] $ "

Preview:

This is my preferred colors. You can customize each part of prompt's color by changing m codes (e.g. 34m) which are ANSI color codes.

List of ANSI Color codes:

• Black: 30m
• Red: 31m
• Green: 32m
• Yellow: 33m
• Blue: 34m
• Purple: 35m
• Cyan: 36m
• White: 37m