Re: bash profile question

[Lazaro.Salem@rf.no]

For the prompt, I have the following line in my ~/.bash_profile 
and ~/.bashrc 
use:
     export PS1="\u@\h:\w\\n[\#]\\$ "
which produces, for example
     lds@mafalda:~/bin
     [3]$ ls -laR
or 
     root@mafalda:/usr/src/linux
     [4]# ls -laR

\$ gives you a different prompt char ($ or #) when logged as a normal user or as
root; \u gives the username; \h gives the hostname; \w the present working 
directory (with shorted $HOME, i.e., ~); 
\n is a carriage return which I use since I have too long pathnames so I prefer 
to have the prompt and history command number in the next line.
The special characters (like \n and \$) require you to escape them by 
preppending a backslash. You'll find this and more in the bash manpage.

I also used to have slightly different prompts in bash_profile and .bashrc to 
distinguish between login and non login sessions. 

lazaro. <salem@rf.no> 


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Subject: bash profile question
Author:  debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink
Date:    04.10.96 23:36


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.
 
 
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