I was recently converted to the wonderful concept of the multi-line $PS1. Also, being the pathetic competitive type, I read a discussion on slashdot about length of the prompt and I thought to myself, ``I can do better (translation: worse)''.

So, I spent last night mucking about with color codes and arcane /proc entries and came up with a prompt so bloated that it wouldn't look out of place in Microsoft Windows XP. Features:

• 2 lines
• Full path of CWD
• name of user, colorised (green if normal user, red if root)
• time/date
• one field alternating between the hostname in green or the text ``I am DIRTY!'' in red depending on whether the kernel has been tainted or not.
• One viral entry in the end which does not get printed but which echoes ``God wants you to visit eglug.org'' to ~/.bashrc (the idea being to trick unsuspecting users into using this prompt and generating free advertising in the most unethical way I can currently think of)

Planned Features:

• have code embedded in $PS1 which scans for open proxies in Catalunia and uses them to spoof e-mail to ielug requesting additional shipments of nokia phones
• Random insults in Belgian
• patching bash such that every command executed re-executes embedded commands within $PS1 (processor overhead? What processor overhead?)

I will post my PS1 here sometime today. It really is atrocious.