Re: base-files 1.6 (source all) uploaded to master
> On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Martin Schulze <joey@kuolema.Infodrom.North.DE> asked:
> > Is it possible to tell bash to use '>' instead of '$' for the
> > user prompt?
On Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 11:30:58AM -0500, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
> Check the bash manpage under PROMPTING. The '>' character is not
> a special character that requires any special or escape characters.
> My prompt is "bob:vc-3:bob>". This is created by the following in my
> .bash_profile. :
> PS1='\u:vc-'`ps|cut -c1-9|grep $$|cut -c9`':\W>'
> \ literal '>'
Sure, but this means that root has the '>', too, instead of the
hash.
Regards,
Joey
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