For example, say I want to run the command ll:
My output would look something like this:
josh@zeitgeist ~ ll
total 41148
drwxr-xr-x 42 josh josh 4096 Aug 4 22:52 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 9 21:18 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 josh josh 3523718 Jul 11 00:17 2017-07-11-001710_3840x2160_scrot.png
but I want it to look like this:
josh@zeitgeist ~ ll
total 41148
drwxr-xr-x 42 josh josh 4096 Aug 4 22:52 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 9 21:18 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 josh josh 3523718 Jul 11 00:17 2017-07-11- 001710_3840x2160_scrot.png
I already know about using PS1='XXX' to change the prompt; is there a way to change every line of the output that gets displayed, for every command, specifically in the terminal(not changing the output and putting it in a file)?
I would like to do this to have an indentation line of characters going down the left side of my terminal. I'm currently wokring on creating a sci-fi inspired desktop, and one of the things I'm doing is creating a unique, irregular border around my titleless, borderless urxvt terminal windows by using a terminal background image. The only issue is I cannot figure out how to prepend spacing to the beginning of all output, because the output hugs the left edge of the window, which covers the paret of the background I want visible. I tried using URxvt internalBorder and externalBorder, but they cover the background image on the bottom and right edges of the terminal.
Best Answer
How about this. Starts a new
bash
process that is piped intoawk
, where every line piped in gets a couple of spaces printed before $0 (the input line)