If you're just as much of a fan of personalizing your coding environment as I am, you must have been just as bummed out when you ran your Linux env...
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Good intro, especially with the custom characters / colors.
Once you decide that a custom prompt is definitely for you, you may want to consider a more comprehensive prompt framework.
I suggest taking a look at Bash-It
It has a lot of prompt themes to chose from.
Many of the themes support different
segmentsthat you can use to customize your prompt, ie:I'm a huge fan of (and contributor to) the Bash-It Powerline themes, which support many different types of segments, along with the ability to control both the order of segments and their colors.
Nice post!
An if you often use git, you can even add the git status of your current working directory.
github.com/magicmonty/bash-git-prompt
All those ZSH and Fish users, they think they are sooo fancy. pff, we have nice things too.
asciimojis are great too ;)

Yeah those are so fun!