Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 11:52:19 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: Sascha Schumann <sas@schell.de> Cc: William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BASH prompt question Message-ID: <ML-3.3.902170339.1051.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980803202247.29560A-100000@www.schell.de>
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> > > > > > 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. /etc/profile is system-wide. Everybody who uses a Bourne-type shell will be affected by it's contents. Non-standard prompts; particularly ones that may be quite lengthy, are a personal preference. They should be kept in personal config files. For Bash, that's ~/.bashrc and/or ~/.bash_profile. (Depending on whether you want it executed every time a shell starts; or only for login shells. 'Man bash' for details.) -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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