From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 17 16:33: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hades.riverstyx.net (hq-port-89.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A14415337 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 16:33:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from localhost (unknown@localhost) by hades.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA14446; Mon, 17 May 1999 16:39:40 -0700 Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 16:39:40 -0700 (PDT) From: To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: Adam Szilveszter , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie tip In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990517174353.0096ac50@mail.bfm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > --- > Want to design your own web counter? > Get GCL 2.10 from http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message