[wplug] colored prompt

[Patrick Wagstrom]

Zach wrote:
> I've seen in some Linux screenshots that some users have their BASH
> prompt colorized. I would like to set this up for my gnome-terminals,
> xterms and system consoles (Ctrl-Alt-Fn). I would like to have:
> 
> user at host~/CWD>
> 
> Where user is dark blue, @ is red, host is dark green, ~ is red, /CWD
> is gray and > is dark blue.

You'll want to use ANSI escape sequences, just like in DOS.  There's a 
much better writeup than any of us could do at:

http://ldp.wplug.org/LDP/abs/html/colorizing.html

In bash, you'll need to modify your PS1 and environment variables for this.

--Patrick