Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 16:47:12 -0700 (PDT) From: <unknown@riverstyx.net> To: Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net> Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie tip Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905171646470.12325-100000@hades.riverstyx.net> In-Reply-To: <19990517163540.A71029@dub.net>
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I can't stand having colors 'coz every time I use someone's remote terminal the color codes get mangled :) --- tani hosokawa river styx internet On 17 May 1999, Bill Swingle wrote: > I use this nice color-ized bash prompt: > > PS1="\[^[[32m\]\u@\h\[^[[0m\]:\[^[[33m\]\w\[^[[0m\]\$ " > > :) > > -Bill > > On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 04:39:40PM -0700, unknown@riverstyx.net wrote: > > 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 :) > > > > 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... > > > -- > -=| Bill Swingle - unfurl@dub.net - unfurl@freebsd.org - bill@cdrom.com > -=| "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" Pablo Picasso > > > > > 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
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