Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 09:40:24 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: unknown@riverstyx.net Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com>, Adam Szilveszter <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie tip Message-ID: <19990518094024.51272@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905171637290.12325-100000@hades.riverstyx.net>; from unknown@riverstyx.net on Mon, May 17, 1999 at 04:39:40PM -0700 References: <3.0.6.32.19990517174353.0096ac50@mail.bfm.org> <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905171637290.12325-100000@hades.riverstyx.net>
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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 :) There's a pair of config files for bash with some annotations and a whole lot of different prompts to uncomment and try one at a time. If you want to grab them, note that you need both because they're designed to work together. http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/slow/bash_profile http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/slow/bashrc Essentially you copy them to your home directory and change the names to each begin with a dot, then read the actual files, following the instructions to make any changes needed. -- Regards, -*Sue*- (` ;) ' '` , <-- a moulting +0 budgerigar named Einstein , " ~ . ` To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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