Re: bash shell prompt

[Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net>]

On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Julian Gilbey wrote:

 : > Hi,
 : > 
 : > On Hamm, if I login as root or while logged in as myself do a "su" 
 : > then my shell prompt shows the host and current directory.
 : > 
 : > When I am logged in as myself my prompt is just a $
 : > 
 : > I much prefer to see the current directory in my prompt. So how do 
 : > I change it?
 : > 
 : > 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\$ '
 : 
 : You want to put this line in BOTH .bashrc (for non-login shells) and
 : .bash_profile (for login shells).  The manpage bash(1) explains which
 : files are loaded when.

Or if you're truly lazy (like me), put the relevant lines in .bashrc and
source that file in .bash_profile ... that way you've got the same
environment whether you're in a login shell or not.

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