From: Edward Parrilla <eparrilla@comcast.net>
To: Linux_admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Set the prompt.
Date: 03 Nov 2004 16:19:06 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1099520328.5008.1.camel@eparr1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3983.192.168.99.70.1099509153.squirrel@192.168.99.70>
Hi,
thanks for your answer. I found that what I have set works but when I
logging through X-Window session; however it does not work if I go
through an X-term or Term session.
What is the difference.
Thanks
Edward
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 13:12, Scott Taylor wrote:
> Scott Taylor said:
> >
> > Edward Parrilla said:
> >>
> >> PS1="{${HOSTNAME}"':${PWD}}'
> >> export PS1
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > man bash
>
> Look for PROMPTING
> /PROMTING
>
> > I get:
> > PS1="\h:\W "
>
> Sorry, that should be lower case 'W' "\h:\w " to get a full PWD with ~/ to
> represent your home directory, but it gets very long that way.
>
> --
> Scott
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-03 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-03 18:53 Set the prompt Edward Parrilla
[not found] ` <e29bf9c50411031057125227a@mail.gmail.com>
2004-11-03 19:00 ` Helge Pettersen
2004-11-03 19:04 ` Scott Taylor
2004-11-03 19:08 ` Helge Pettersen
2004-11-03 19:12 ` Scott Taylor
2004-11-03 22:19 ` Edward Parrilla [this message]
2004-11-04 4:31 ` Glynn Clements
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