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Date:      Mon, 17 May 1999 16:39:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      <unknown@riverstyx.net>
To:        "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com>
Cc:        Adam Szilveszter <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Newbie tip
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905171637290.12325-100000@hades.riverstyx.net>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990517174353.0096ac50@mail.bfm.org>

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So change it... PS1 is the environment variable used for the prompt.

try adding this to your .profile:

export PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "

That'll give you a nice RedHat-like prompt :)

---
tani hosokawa
river styx internet


On Mon, 17 May 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:

> At 13:07 17-05-1999 -0700, unknown@riverstyx.net wrote:
> >But I'd suggest bash instead.  Ref. "C Shell Programming Considered
> >Harmful" by Tom Christiansen (47.02 Unix Power Tools, 'coz I can't find
> >the original).  It's not just scripting that tcsh is crippled in -- it's
> >just general command line stuff.  Ick.
> 
> Hmmm... When the suggestions started rolling in, I tried bash on my telnet
> account with my web hosting company. It changed my prompt to BashNN (where
> NN was the version number). I really hated that and never looked back.
> 
> I prefer my own custom propmpt...
> 
> Adam
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