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Re: recover ext3 deletion



My file was dated 1996 and I too have no idea where it came from. The
following makes it even more obvious:

PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '

Brian Potkin said:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:43:21PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote:
>
>> Why doesn't the prompt for root ever include showing the current
>> directory? That would probably have saved this poor fellow as he may
>> have seen that he was not in /floppy as he thought.
>
> Surely it is relatively easy to change the prompt to whatever is
> desired.  In root's .bashrc on this machine I have
>
> export PS1='\h:\w\$ '
>
> which gives what you suggest.  The file dates from 1998 so I really
> cannot recollect whether it came as the default prompt or it was put
> there by me.
>
> Brian.
>
>
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...RickM...




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