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From: Edward Parrilla <eparrilla@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Set the prompt.
Date: 03 Nov 2004 16:19:06 -0600
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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.
> 
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> Scott
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