A More Readable Terminal

I find the default terminal layout a bit hard to read between where the previous command ran and ended its output. Adding this line to your .bashrc file puts a horizontal line before each primary prompt making it a lot more readable for me to locate the sequence of outputs.

PROMPT_COMMAND=$'printf %"$COLUMNS"s |tr " " "_"'

Obligatory corny screenshot below, courtesy of icanhazdadjoke.

Bash terminal with horizontal separator lines between each command output

Note: I very much prefer zsh (with ohmyzsh framework) but installing a new shell is not always an option.

A More Readable Terminal

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