Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 11:32:57 +0100 From: Martijn Koster <mak@webcrawler.com> To: Jose Monteiro <jm@pluriproj.pt> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting PS1 Message-ID: <19970926113257.40412@webcrawler.com> In-Reply-To: <342c7acd.3384017@mail.leirianet.pt>; from Jose Monteiro on Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 09:11:57AM %2B0000 References: <342c7acd.3384017@mail.leirianet.pt>
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On Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 09:11:57AM +0000, Jose Monteiro wrote:
> What should I do [to .bash_profile] in order to get a prompt like:
>
> jose@thor /usr/local$ cd bin
> jose@thor /usr/local/bin$
`man bash` of course :-)
...
Bash allows these prompt strings to be customized
by inserting a number of backslash-escaped special
characters that are decoded as follows:
....
\w the current working directory
so do:
$ cd /usr/local
$ export PS1='\u@\h \w$ '
mak@mindy /usr/local$ cd bin
mak@mindy /usr/local/bin$
-- Martijn Koster, m.koster@pobox.com
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