My Linux/Cygwin command prompt
By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: June 3 2016
As each day passes I use Cygwin more and more. One of the things I like to do on Unix platforms is to control what my command prompt looks like. On Cygwin, I edited my .bash_profile to include a multi-line entry like this:
PS1=' $PWD yo: '
This may look bizarre, but I like the results. It makes my command line prompt look like this: