Comments on: Change your Terminal prompt – Lost style

By: user123

user123 — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:16:29 +0000

If you’re on OSX and the .bashrc doesn’t work, go into the Terminal preferences. Under the Shell tab, enable the terminal to execute bash on startup, and run it inside the shell. Your .bashrc should execute.

By: MacNoob

MacNoob — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:48:31 +0000

Thanks! Right after I “chsh -s /bin/zsh” I’ll “vim .zprofile”

By: HOWTO: Bash terminal in Mac OS X afstellen | Digicted

HOWTO: Bash terminal in Mac OS X afstellen | Digicted — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:57:25 +0000

[...] Waar sommige mensen hun terminal op die van Lost willen laten lijken (zie ook deze reactie) ben ik meer voor een informatieve prompt met een lichte achtergrond. [...]

By: Sam Danielson

Sam Danielson — Thu, 03 May 2007 05:47:28 +0000

On Ubuntu don’t forget it’s ‘sudo 4 8 15 16 23 42′. I recommend the NOPASSWD option in the sudoers file for those times when you have to enter the code at the last second.

By: Daily Clerks

Daily Clerks — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:30:07 +0000

[...] Blogger David Winter has a posted a cute how-to showing you how to change the prompt in your terminal to the “>:” used in Lost. [...]

By: OS X Daily » How to Customize your Terminal Prompt - Mac OS X Apps, Tips, Tricks, News, Updates, Everything Mac OS X

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:56:04 +0000

[...] So, play around and see what you prefer. By the way, if you’re new to the Terminal text editor nano, you save a file by hitting control-o, and you exit the file and program by hitting control-x. You can also just use a standard text editor, like TextWrangler or TextEdit. There’s also a simple how-to designed to make your Terminal prompt resemble the one from the TV show LOST, but it is less useful in the real world, read that here if you are interested. [...]

By: Brett

Brett — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:51:44 +0000

Great tip. I had to use .bash_profile as well, so thanks Jacko for that note.

The >: makes it so much easier to focus on the output (mostly ToDo.txt stuff) than a long and garbled string. Very handy.

By: Jacko

Jacko — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:13:46 +0000

Cool thing!

I had to write it in .bash_profile instead of .bashrc in order to make it work straight away though.

I also made a short script named '4' in my /bin/ directory that does a clear, so you get a clear screen when you enter the sequence :)

By: polozero

polozero — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 02:11:44 +0000

hi, if you had installed fink, you have to add it to “.profile”, if you do it to “.bashrc” don’t work, :D , I guess It has priority… by the way it looks cool :D, I remember my monochrome display…

By: Steffen

Steffen — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:44:39 +0000

Funny – now you only need to implement a real countdown that e.g. erases the hard drive if you don’t enter the numbers before the 108 minutes.