thank you for typing the out for me! I've done this and the file saved fine, i checked the contents with cat powerlevel.sh and it was correct, however when running it it doesn't change the powerlevel, any idea why? it looks fine to me and i did the chmod to, a message saying root enabled comes up when i run the file as user so it looks like its calling the correct file. On a side note when following your instructions i had to type sudo gainroot to run the commands, would this have caused a problem?