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cmr
cmr

Reputation: 111

Is there a way to keep the terminal shell prompt in the middle/top of page?

I'm currently customizing my terminal/bash command prompt for my mac. I was wondering if there was a way to keep the actually prompt in the middle/top top of page after running each command. I hate when it gets to the bottom of the screen then I have to clear it to get back to the top.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4137

Answers (3)

Enlico
Enlico

Reputation: 28406

Personally, I prefer the prompt at the bottom of the terminal, so I have this in my ~/.bashrc:

__prompt_to_bottom_line() {
  tput cup $LINES
}
alias clear='clear && __prompt_to_bottom_line'
__prompt_to_bottom_line

You can easily adapt it, e.g. by changing $LINES to $(( LINES / 2 )) you want it at the center of the screen.

Upvotes: 1

Mike
Mike

Reputation: 121

This answer seems to nearly work for me with some amendment but it still displays some odd behaviour:

PS1=$'\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\e[8A'"$PS1"

From: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/698626

Upvotes: 1

chepner
chepner

Reputation: 531055

You can use an ANSI escape character to reposition the cursor prior displaying the prompt, but I don't think you're going to like the result; it's going to put the prompt above or on top of the output from the previous command.

PS1='\[\e[1;1H\]> '

"1;1" here represents the upper left-hand corner; you can vary the numbers to choose a different row/column if desired.

Upvotes: 2

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