Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

Johannes Wiedersich put forth on 2/9/2010 11:09 AM:
> Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> Also, I've always _hated_ that # for root's prompt, so I killed it and use a $
>> now.  No need for it since root is now all red. :)
> 
> FWIW, if I document my work, eg. by copy-pasting the command into a
> doc-file, the color information is lost. IMHO it is therefore usefull to
> have a different prompt for root. YMMV, of course.
> 
> Just my humble 2ct.

Maybe you misunderstood my example shell prompt code.  Or maybe I'm just not
understanding what you're saying.  Here, copy/pasted from a Putty terminal
session.  Not a doc-file, but demonstrates your example nonetheless.

[11:14:14][stan@greer]/etc/postfix$
[11:16:09][root@greer]/etc/postfix$

There.  No color.  Root does has a different prompt.  The prompt says "root"
instead of "user".  What about your concern am I missing?

-- 
Stan