when you are working with many terminal in different servers, trying to figure out the problem, and after hours, you find out that you are working on the wrong terminal,😵

Custom prompt!
And colors, if you can.
Red for production, green for staging, pink/blue for dev

Two command that will help you, pwd for making sure you're in the right directory and hostname/hostname -i for making sure you're on the right server

I remember the same thing, my friend dropped database table in production, luckily we have nightly backup.

@Ashkin

Looks great idea, how to change terminal colors based on sshed machine. Any idea ?

@Gowtham95india
Terminal profile based on titlebar?
That should work petty well.

My prompt tells me my username and which machine I'm on, what directory I'm in, what git branch I'm on if applicable (and if there's commits, staged/unstaged changes or not, etc.), and ofc if I'm root or not. Ex:

Username@machine /current/working/directory (branch*+)
$ cdls config

(Plus nice colors.)

Because of this, I haven't accidentally done anything on the wrong machine or project. Totally recommend!

Try zsh and byobu/tmux 🤘