If you are staring at a terminal all day coding, it is important to customize and personalize your work environment as much as possible. Besides changing the color of your terminal mac, adding an Emoji (or two) to your terminal is a fun, fast and easy way to customize your setup. In a recent Gist that I created for some members of my dev team I show you just how to do that!

Step 1. Open up your .bash_profile in your favorite text editor.

sublime ~/.bash_profile

Step 1.1 If the file doesn't yet exist you can create it)

cd ~
touch .bash_profile

Step 2 Add this line to the bottom of the file

The \W is the Working directory that you are currently inside of and you can add an unlimited amount of emoji to your terminal after that.

PS1="\W 🔥🦄 "

Step 3 - Save and Exit / Restart Terminal & Enjoy!

The result is something like this.

You can use this generator to fully customize the hell out of your command prompt.

How else do you customize your dev setup?

👇 Leave your setup hacks in the comment section below. 👇

Happy Hacking!