my iterm path looks like the below, I saw the stack overflow post referencing http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1528 which didn't work. How to go about getting the file path reduced in size so that I can have a much smaller footprint?
ie, only have the current working directory and the git branch would be very useful. thanks.
[jd@mbp ~/rubyonrailstutor/curriculum_apps/restaurantly (master)]$
For those that are stumbling on this post years later like me. :-) Here is my setup to show only the current directory and current git branch in my terminal.
parse_git_branch() {
git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/ (\1)/'
}
export PS1="{ \[\033[36m\]\u \[\033[1;31m\]@\h \[\033[00m\]} \[\033[1;37m\]\W\[\033[33m\]\$(parse_git_branch) \[\033[34m\]$ \[\033[00m\]"
This gives you the following: Terminal Output: Directory & Current Branch
Any chunk that you see like this [\033[36m\] in the export line is doing the coloring of the text. You can do a search to see what values are available.
And that's it, short, sweet and colorified. :-)
