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Is there any way to set this on directory level? I do my development in my /home/XYZ folder, and production is in /usr/local/www/XYZ and it would be great if I could set the background to red in the production dir (if I happen to wander into it somehow (which I really almost never do)).


You could put a shell script around cd that checks the current working directory every time you cd and alerts you appropriately.

A little clunky, I'll admit. I'd like to hear any more graceful solutions.


From man bash, the variable PROMPT_COMMAND:

  If set, the value is executed as a command prior to issuing each primary prompt.
e.g.:

  PROMPT_COMMAND='[[ "$PWD" =~ ^/sensitive/area ]] && PS1="be careful: " || PS1="normalprompt: "'




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