topic setting user prompt in Operating System - Linux

setting user prompt

mw_4 — Sat, 15 Jun 2002 00:15:43 GMT

/bin/bash shell
user@host[pwd]
pwd is full path can anyone help me...?

Re: setting user prompt

I_M — Sat, 15 Jun 2002 02:20:36 GMT

Hi

I am using RH7.3.
The default prompt is [user@host dir]$.

Then I checked out "echo $PS1".
[\u@\h \W]\$

So I want to change my prompt something like yours, I set my PS1 as,

PS1=\\u@\\h[\\W]\$

Of course you have to put this command into your .bash_profile or .bashrc in your home directory.

Good luck

Re: setting user prompt

Kodjo Agbenu — Sat, 15 Jun 2002 19:09:38 GMT

Hello,

Try :

export PS1="`whoami`@`hostname`[\$PWD] "

Good luck.

Kodjo

Re: setting user prompt

Stuart Browne — Sun, 16 Jun 2002 21:53:43 GMT

The token for the 'full path' (as against just the last dir in path) is \w, not \W.

so:

PS1='\u@\h[\w]\$ '

This is covered in 'man bash', under the section 'PROMPTING'.