From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Thomas Steudten <alpha@steudten.com>
Subject: Re: changing KDE Konsole prompt?
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 22:26:48 +0100
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To: Jeffrey Morse <jmorse@m4cc.com>
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The bash-shell has an expansion of "\$" which
gives you a hash for uid=3D0, else a $.
See man bash, grep PROMPTING.

But that=B4s not the console, it=B4s the shell ;-)


Jeffrey Morse wrote:

> Put this in your .bashrc:
>=20
> This changes the bash shell prompt
> # set prompt: ``username@hostname:/directory $ ''
> PS1=3D"[\u@\h:\w] "
> case `id -u` in
>       0) PS1=3D"${PS1}# ";;
>       *) PS1=3D"${PS1}$ ";;


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