Easy Bash Colorization

I like things simple - if they are hard, I like to make them simple.  Take my bash prompt (PS1) I want it to have colour, be easy to change (and mess around with), and well as show me if I'm on a remote machine (as I will tend to do a few dozen times a day).  I also put it into its own file, which I call .bash_prompt and to be called from .bashrc or .bash_profile.

So here is my .bash_prompt file:



Edit to your personal preference then run:

source ~/.bash_prompt