Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:57:05 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Prompt containing SSH login information Message-ID: <20091124125705.7543562f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20091124111945.GA80567@ei.bzerk.org> References: <20091124051038.1aef9ade.freebsd@edvax.de> <20091124111945.GA80567@ei.bzerk.org>
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On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:19:45 +0100, Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> wrote:
> In tcsh there's the REMOTEHOST env variable. Don't know about bash.
> Something like:
>
> set prompt = "${USER}@${HOST}>${REMOTEHOST}> "
>
> should do it?
That's an approach, it it makes the "upper stage" visible;
it works in bash, too.
For interactive shells, I would include a test if $REMOTEHOST
is set, and if it is, then it's a SSH session, so a different
prompt has to be set.
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