Re: Question Regarding Directory Prompts
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:40:01PM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:01:20AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > The prompt always shows the entire chain to the current directory. My
> > memory says this was not always so. There is nothing in .bashrc
> > regarding this. Is it set somewhere else?
>
> The default value of PS1 (the prompts in bourne shells) is something in
> the lines of:
>
> \u@\h:\w\$
>
> In the manual page of bash, under 'PROMPTING' you'll find their
> meanings. Specifically, \w means:
>
> the current working directory, with $HOME abbreviated
> with a tilde
>
> So you might have seen once the path truncated as you were at your home
> directory.
>
> >
> > The reason I ask is that I am trying to work with a One Laptop per Child
> > (olpc) laptop and the prompt never shows even the current directory.
> > The olpc is fedora based but I'm trying to get it to behave more like
> > Debian. My assumption is that aside from a few idiosyncracies fedora is
> > linux.
>
> Or a different value to PS1 . Try the following in your terminal:
>
> echo $PS1
> PS1_saved="$PS1"
> PS1="\d $PS1"
> echo "just to see the new prompt"
> PS1="$PS1_saved"
Cool!
>
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