====== Bash prompt on new line ====== When you have a long path in the prompt, only few characters could be left to write the command before going on the next line. With this prompt instead, the command starts from a new line regardless of the path length. Try it pasting this in a terminal export PS1="┌──(\u@\h)-[\[\w\]] └─\$ " Make it permanent with nano ~/.bashrc adding at the end of the file PS1="┌──(\u@\h)-[\[\w\]] └─\$ " (I don't care about colors)