How to add an icon to the bash prompt

Question

I know you can edit the bash prompt permanently by editing the PS1 variable in your ~/.bashrc file, mine looks like this:

PS1=\"\\[\\e[0;31m\\]

        

Answer 1

Actually, Yes, you can.

In recent versions of Bash, at least 4 (i could do it in 4.2 and 4.3), you can render emoji with the hex.

Use the echo -e flag.

paste an emoji you looked up in and do a hexdump to see what it's made of:

plasmarob ~ $ echo -n "