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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 14:27:56 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Sascha Schumann <sas@schell.de>
To: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>
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Subject: Re: BASH prompt question
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On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, William Woods wrote:

> I would like to make my bash prompt show a little more info, like what dir the
> user is in. How would I do this?

Edit /etc/profile and insert at the end:

test "$SHELL" = "/bin/bash" && test -e ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

Or, if that looks too ugly to you:

if [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/bash" -a -e ~/.bashrc ] ; then
	source ~/.bashrc
fi

Then you can put all your personal stuff (in case your system is used by
more than one) in your ~/.bashrc:

PS1='\u@\h:`pwd -P` $ '
export PS1

For more info, see man bash ;)

Greetings,

             Sascha


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