Cool Unix-Shell Prompt

At the shell-prompt in Terminal or some SSH session, copy/paste the following line: export PS1="\n\u@\h \A \w $ " and see the following nice shell-prompt:

You will have the following information always present: Who you are On which machine you are The current system time The current working directory cq. folder you are in The $ as the separator And a new line after a command To have this prompt permanent, add the line mentioned above to the file /etc/profile