Re: bash shell prompt

[Marlon Urias <nolram@OCF.Berkeley.EDU>]

On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:

> 
> > My guess was that the .bashrc in my home directory needed the 
> > same PS1 environment as the .bashrc in the root directory so I 
> > added 
> > 
> > export PS1='\h:\w\$ '
> > 
> > but this does not solve the problem UNLESS I login as myself and 
> > then type 
> > 
> > bash
> > 
> > at which point the prompt changes.
> > 
> > So I seem to have the right environment variable but do I need to 
> > put it in a different file or what?
> 
> You need to put it in .bash_profile
> 
> (RTFM for explaination - it's too complex to condense here, but basically,
> it looks for .bash_profile first)

.bashrc only gets read for subshells.  .bash_profile always get read no
matter what. You can also source .bashrc from  .bash_profile and you can
forget about order.			-marlon