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

Nowadays, you can add emoji if you have an emoji-aware font. I guess this wasn't a easily viable option when the question was originally posted

I wrote this blog post about it a couple of years ago.

I don't know about American flags, but export PS1="\360\237\232\251 > " gets a flag in your prompt.

I also wrote a shell tool to make printing the escapes for echo or shell prompt a little easier. It's called emo