Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 07:54:31 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: wwoods@cybcon.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BASH prompt question Message-ID: <199808031254.HAA21127@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980802235703.wwoods@cybcon.com> from William Woods at "Aug 2, 98 11:57:03 pm"
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In a previous message, William Woods said:
> 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?
from man bash:
\t the current time in HH:MM:SS format
\d the date in "Weekday Month Date" format
(e.g., "Tue May 26")
\n newline
\s the name of the shell, the basename of $0
(the portion following the final slash)
\w the current working directory
\W the basename of the current working direc-
tory
\u the username of the current user
\h the hostname
\# the command number of this command
\! the history number of this command
\$ if the effective UID is 0, a #, otherwise a
$
\nnn the character corresponding to the octal
number nnn
\\ a backslash
\[ begin a sequence of non-printing characters,
which could be used to embed a terminal con-
trol sequence into the prompt
\] end a sequence of non-printing characters
--
The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
-- W. C. Fields
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