It colors the machine name and current directory different colors for easy viewing.
This one eliminates the additional backslash at the end (which is not necessary) Show Sample Output
I use this command (PS1) to show a list bash prompt's special characters. I tested it against A flavor of Red Hat Linux and Mac OS X Show Sample Output
blue and yellow colored bash prompt for a Hanukkah celebration on your box
This coloured prompt will show: username in green, grey "@" sign, hostname in red, current directory in yellow, typed commands in green.
For example, if you are the type who type ls very often, then
PROMPT_COMMAND=ls
will ls after every command you issue.
You can put this into your shell sourced file like .bashrc or .zshrc to have a different mysql prompt. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/de/mysql-commands.html for more informations. Beware that currently with mysql 5.5 the seconds are buggy and won't be displayed if you put this into a .cnf file. With the enironment variable this will work. Show Sample Output
(This may be specific to bash only.) This transforms the current working directory to all uppercase characters and replaces forward slashes with backslashes, prepending the string with "C:" and appending a single ">". It serves no practical purpose, but may serve as a great practical joke if you can insert it to some victim's .bashrc :-) Show Sample Output
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