Re: A very simple question
Be careful, though because it does not always handle line wraps the way
you might expect if you are deep in the filesystem and have a very long
current directory name.
On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Dan Dooher wrote:
> Forget the man page on bash--to much work for a simple request.
>
> Edit ".bash_profile" and add thge lines:
>
> export MACHINE=`uname -n`
> export PS1='$MACHINE:$PWD>'
>
> This will give you a prompt like: "zues:\home\dooher>"
>
> Regards,
> Dan
>
> George Bonser wrote:
> >
> > I hate to say this but man bash and read the section about prompts. It
> > goes in your ~/.bash_profile
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Aug 1997 Zim9781@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > Could someone tell me how to setup my linux prompt to display what directory
> > > I am in?
> > >
> > >
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