Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 20:28:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: Sascha Schumann <sas@schell.de> To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Cc: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BASH prompt question Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980803202247.29560A-100000@www.schell.de> In-Reply-To: <ML-3.3.902168241.7515.patl@asimov>
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On Mon, 3 Aug 1998 patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote:
> > 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:
> >
> > ...
>
> Aaaaccckkkk!!! NO, NO, NO, this is the sort of -personal preference-
> customization that should NOT be placed in system-wide config files.
> Even if you are (currently) the only user of that machine. Let's not
> encourage any bad habits.
Huh? If one enables per-user settings I wouldn't consider that bad.
>
>
> > 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
>
> Yep, this is the way to do it.
If I may correct myself here:
PS1='\u@\h:`pwd -P` \$ '
\$ will be replaced with uid==0 ? '#' : '$'
Greetings,
Sascha
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