Make Your Terminal Fun: Adding Custom Emojis to Your Root Prompt

Commandline is where you spend an enormous amount of time as a developer. I like to make my User fun by adding emojis and changing colors. In this short tutorial, I want to share multiple emojis and show how to add them to the root prompt through the .bashrc file.

Step one: Open Your Bash

Bash file can be opened through any editor you want. For this tutorial, we will use the most basic one – nano. You can edit your ~/.basrc file with the command below:

Step two: Edit Bashrc file

Copy/paste one of the emoji from the list to the Bashrc file.

Make sure to correctly save file with ctrl + X

Step three: apply the changes

Now your emoji (in this case: Unicorn) should appear in your Terminal prompt.