Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 17:28:18 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Brandon helsley <brandon.helsley@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Shell Message-ID: <20200630172818.36242967.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2006301506140.9735@azone.org> References: <CY4PR19MB010400AC4940C67421BFADE8F96E0@CY4PR19MB0104.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <alpine.DEB.2.21.2006301506140.9735@azone.org>
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On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:10:16 +0000 (UTC), davidson@freevolt.org wrote:
> When logged in as that user, you can see what default shell they have
> like so:
>
> $ finger `whoami`
> Login: poe Name: little red riding hood
> Directory: /home/poe Shell: /bin/sh
> [...] ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
>
> If the shell is /bin/sh, then the configuration file for that user's
> shell is in ~/.shrc. You might be able to set the prompt to something
> more helpful by uncommenting some lines in that file.
>
> Uncomment these lines, for example:
>
> $ cat ~/.shrc
> [...]
> # # set prompt; ``username@hostname$ ''
> # PS1="`whoami`@`hostname | sed 's/\..*//'`"
> # case `id -u` in
> # 0) PS1="${PS1}# ";;
> # *) PS1="${PS1}$ ";;
> # esac
The following entry resembles the standard UNIX prompts as
seen in the default configuration (for the C shell):
PS1="`whoami`@`hostname | sed 's/\..*//'`:`pwd`\$ "
The only exception is that the home directory is not
abbreviated as ~.
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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