My ~/.bashrc settings have a killer setting for how my shell prompt looks:
case $- in
*i*)
export PS1="\[$(tput bold)\]\[$(tput setaf 6)\]\t \[$(tput setaf 2)\][\[$(tput setaf 4)\]\u\[$(tput setaf 1)\]@\[$(tput setaf 4)\]\H \w \[$(tput setaf 6)\]\[$(tput setaf 2)\]]\[$(tput setaf 4)\] \$? \\$ \[$(tput sgr0)\]" ;;
*) return ;;
esac
The result:
22:19:43 [myuser@myserver.example.com ~ ] 0 $
This shows the current system time, username@server FQDN, pwd, exit code of last command, and regular user or root prompt.
This works in both interactive and non-interactive shells (hence the case statement). Enjoy. Additional info can be found here:
Bash $PS1 generator
10 Bash $PS1 examples
Bashrc generator
