Looking for a nice shell prompt? Add the following in your .bashrc:

red='\[\033[0;31m\]'
RED='\[\033[1;31m\]'
green='\[\033[0;32m\]'
GREEN='\[\033[1;32m\]'
yellow='\[\033[0;33m\]'
YELLOW='\[\033[1;33m\]'
blue='\[\033[0;34m\]'
BLUE='\[\033[1;34m\]'
magenta='\[\033[0;35m\]'
MAGENTA='\[\033[1;35m\]'
cyan='\[\033[0;36m\]'
CYAN='\[\033[1;36m\]'
grey='\[\033[0;37m\]'
GREY='\[\033[1;30m\]'
NC='\[\033[0m\]'

   showuser=''
  if [ "`id -u`" != 0 ]; then showuser="\u@"; fi
  hostnamecontent=`cat /etc/hostname`
  showchroot=''
  if [ "$hostnamecontent" != $HOSTNAME ]; then showchroot="*$hostnamecontent"; fi
  PS1="${yellow}\$(date +%H:%M),\! ${cyan}${showuser}\h${showchroot}:${green}\w${NC}\n  ${grey}"'\$'"${NC} "
  # Define a nice correct PROMPT_COMMAND, which will update to window title,
  # only if we have an X terminal
  case $TERM in
    aterm|eterm|*xterm|konsole|kterm|rxvt|wterm)
        PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}${showchroot}: ${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
  esac