Re: bash profile question

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Marcel Burggraeve wrote:

> I know you can use your .bash_profile to let you see the current
> directory and a prompt ( like in dos or os/2 )
> I do have a profile which does this but was wondering if some people
> could post their profiles so maybe I can choose another which I like
> more or something like that.

here's what I use on all my systems:

    export PS1='(\h-\u) [\t] \w\$ '

it gives hostname, login id, current time, and current working directory.

for example:

    (siva-cas) [12:48:15] ~/docs/misc$ 


Craig

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