Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:25:24 -0400 From: Aaron Peterson <dopplecoder@gmail.com> To: Alex Yarmol <alex.yarmol@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bash prompt Message-ID: <45d750d205071806252b2697f7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f1b7642105071714301ee2a19b@mail.gmail.com> References: <f1b7642105071714301ee2a19b@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/17/05, Alex Yarmol <alex.yarmol@gmail.com> wrote: > How I can chage my bash prompt to this: >=20 > [user@host directory-name(e. g. "alex" for /usr/home/alex)]$ >=20 > I assume that I need to do that: >=20 > export PS1=3D'[\u@\h \(here i don't know what to do, i assume, that I > need to write "\p" or "\P", but it's not working)]\$ \w lowercase should give you the full path \W uppercase gives the last component of the path, so given: [user@host /]$ cd /usr/local/etc [user@host etc]$ which tend to prefer to the full path, but you didn't ask what I prefer :-) Aaron
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