Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 13:04:19 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew <perrya@python.shoal.net.au> To: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keeping mutliple machine and telnets straight.... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971119125224.26369B-100000@python.shoal.net.au> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971118190606.00756e98@midwest.net>
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> Hello,
> Now that I have 3 FreeBSD machines on my network I've developed a nasty
> habbit. I tend to telnet around from machine to machine and sometimes
> (well, most of the time)lossing track of where I am. I've noticed on other
> linux machines/shells the host name is in the command line...Ie...
>
> You have new mail.
> #
>
> You have new mail.
> hostname-#
>
> Is this just a different shell or what?
depending on what shell you are using you can set this up in your prompt.
I use tcsh and in my .cshrc i have:
set prompt = "`whoami`@%m%B%c02%b%#%L>"
which gives me
andrew@joker~>>
the whoami gives my username and the rest of the stuff (which I got off
someone else, thanks Rob) gives your machine name, current directory ("~"
for home dir), and some other stuff that I can't remember.
There's a way of doing this under bash and zsh as well. I think under bash
it goes something like PS1="`whoami`@`hostname`$"; export PS1
Bye the way, this will probably start some kind of shell war thread :-)
Andrew Perry
perrya@shoal.net.au~
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