Mac OS X

Make Your Bash Prompt Into A Smiling Pile Of Poo (💩) For Halloween

Did you know that bash supports emojis? So do SSIDs. Let’s run a quick and easy command so that bash can enjoy the same holiday that you’re enjoying. Let’s say the name of an emoji. To do so, open the Terminal.app and paste this command in:

say 💩

You can also easily edit your .bash_profile. To do so, run the `vi .bash_profile` command and paste this line in:

PS1="💩   $"

Note that I put a few spaces here, after the smiling pile of poo (which I really just like to type and verbalize while sitting next to people on airplanes). The reason for the spaces is that otherwise your text might overlap with the emoji. The $ allows me to know I’m at a prompt rather than just looking at an otherwise smiling pile of poo. Anyway, save and open a new Terminal prompt. Boom. Poo. In the Edit menu of the Terminal app, there’s an “Emoji & Symbols” option, which lets you pick many, many more emojis. So you’re not just stuck with the poo I left for you here. Although I could have set it on fire and left it on your doorstep; then you’d be stuck with it…😘