How can I make my shell prompt look like a cheeseburger?

Question

I want my shell prompt to look like a cheeseburger! 🍔🍔🍔

It would be nice if it also displayed: username, hostname, and current directory.

Solution 1

great choice!

$ sudo apt-get install ttf-ancient-fonts
$ export PS1="\\u@\h \\w 🍔 "

enjoy.

Solution 2

Putting a cheeseburger on the prompt:

1. Install a unicode font that contains this character:

   sudo apt-get install ttf-ancient-fonts
   

2. Try the prompt:

   export PS1="\\u@\h \\w 🍔  "
   

3. Make permanent the change (if you don't do that, it will reset once terminal is closed):

   • Run nano .bashrc
   • Go to the 59th line approx. (You can view the current line number pressing Ctrl+C)

   • Locate these lines:

     if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
         PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
     else
         PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
     fi
     

   • Replace \$ character a the end of the lines beginning with PS1= by the cheeseburger:

     if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
         PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\] 🍔 '
     else
         PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\ 🍔 '
     fi
     

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Typing a cheeseburger everywhere (linux only):

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+U
2. A underlined lowercase u will appear.
3. Type 1f354
4. Press Return
5. A nice cheeseburger will appear.

Solution 3

I couldn't help but take this probably a step too far. This version updates your prompt to display a different character based on time of day, to illustrate what you should be doing at that time.

declare -A pp
pp=(["09"]="🍩🍵" ["07"]="🌅" ["08"]="🌅" [10]="💻" [11]="💻" [12]="🍔🍟" [13]="🍔🍟" [14]="💻" [15]="💻" [16]="💻" [17]="🚗" [18]="🚗" [19]="🍷🍸" [20]="🍷🍸" [24]="🌙")
u_pp() {
  c=${pp[`date +"%H"`]}
  if [[ $c == "" ]]; then
    c=${pp[24]}
  fi
  PS1='\u@\h:\w${c} '
};
u_pp
export PROMPT_COMMAND="u_pp;"

Probably there's a more concise way to do it; my bash isn't all that great.

To add the current time of day on the left side, replace the assignment of PS1:

PS1='[\@] \u@\h:\w${c} '

Solution 4

If you can't install the 'ancient fonts' maybe a sideways ASCII art cheeseburger would work?

export PS1="\\u@\h \\w (||]"

Of course, there could be different ways of typing this, possibly including lettuce, pickles, etc.

Solution 5

You can use the following code to create a useful and colorful prompt with an ASCII art hamburger. Well... to be correct, this is a cheeseburger, red meat, with salad on white Italian bread! Special delight! ;-)

Login as the user, go to the home folder and open the bashrc file:

vim ~/.bashrc 

Add or replace the following line:

export PS1="\[\e[01;37m\][\[\e[0m\]\[\e[01;32m\]\u\[\e[0m\]\[\e[00;37m\]@\[\e[0m\]\[\e[01;34m\]\h\[\e[0m\]\[\e[00;37m\] \[\e[0m\]\[\e[00;37m\]\t\[\e[0m\]\[\e[01;37m\] \W \e[1;37m(\e[1;32m|\e[1;33m|\e[1;31m|\e[1;37m]\\$ \[\e[0m\]"

Result (no colors):

[john@server003 15:39:14 ~ (|||]$

• Create your own format using the bashrcgenerator.
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Comments

[Admin]

What font can display these Unicodes?

[Admin]

@the_Seppi, Symbola is one suitable font, which on Ubuntu is part of the ttf-ancient-fonts package.

[Admin]

For time, user, host, directory AND git branch (!) see unix.stackexchange.com/q/127799/10043

[Admin]

The Unicode character you used is the one for hamburger, not cheeseburger. We must petition the Unicode committee to include more fast food-related glyphs. Where are nuggets? Why is there no "with bacon" combining glyph? How on Earth can a Double Whopper and a Big Mac be conflated to the same code point, despite the enormous difference in significance? It's outrageous.

[Admin]

Can you add a screenshot? I only see 🍔🍔🍔, which isn't any fun! ;-)

[Admin]

@SPRBRN, unicode-table.com can search for character: unicode-table.com/en/search/?q=%F0%9F%8D%94

[Admin]

It doesn't look anything like that in the font I have here though.

[Admin]

@SPRBRN Use the answer - install taht font package, then the browser will find the glyph too, just like the terminal.

[Admin]

The source code for 🍔 is 🍞🐄🍅🍞

[Admin]

I have to say the question looks much better now that I've installed ttf-ancient-fonts

[Admin]

possible duplicate of How can I shorten my command line (bash) prompt?

[Find Me In The Woods]

It doesn't show for me 🍔

[Find Me In The Woods]

All I get is square

[0x2b3bfa0]

@FindMeInTheWoods, did you install ttf-ancient-fonts?

[Mutant Bob]

Ctrl-shift-u does not appear to work in xterm or emacs.

[Iluvathar]

Ctrl-shift-u is not linux only, it's GTK only (should work in Windows GIMP, for example, too). Won't work neither in xterm nor emacs nor any Qt-based application including the whole of KDE. Also, there's no need to press Return, just release Ctrl and Shift, and the char will be entered.

[0x2b3bfa0]

@Ruslan: Sorry, it may be as you're saying. However xterm shows a small box when I enter Ctrl+Shift+U and it allows me to put a unicode character, but only in the "printable" range.

[sameera207]

I know this is the most stupid question to be asked in the askubuntu, but I'm just wondering do you have an idea on get this working with mac, coz I'm getting no matches found: [9]= 🍩🍵 when I add this in to my (mac) ~/.bash_profile :)