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		karmicthreat on Feb 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitLab Database Incident – Live Report I've done this exact thing my my servers. Also like GL I prepend PRODUCTION and STAGING on PS1. I should probably make the PRODUCTION flash just in case.

hobarrera on Feb 1, 2017 [–]

We need a <blink> tag for our PS1.

spydum on Feb 1, 2017 | | [–]

Good news! Enable ANSI in your terminal and: ESC[5m

http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/scripting/terminalcodes

eric_h on Feb 3, 2017 | | [–]

You can do that - I actually tried it and everyone on my team agreed that it was bloody annoying, so I made it stop blinking (still red, though).

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