Changing the prompt

[Prasad Joshi]

Hi all,

I currently see my prompt as this
bash-2.02#

but, i want to change it something having
HOSTNAME and having PWD appended to it.

How can i change it?

Thanks & regards,
Prasad.

[m saravanan · Accepted solution]

Prasasd,

Put this following entry in your .profile

PS1="`hostname`$PWD =>"
export PS1



Hope it'll help u.


Regds,
Saravanan

[RAC_1]

With bash shell, it is little different. Put this in .bashprofile or set variable PS1 as follows.

export PS1='\h(\!)${PWD}>'

[Enrico P.]

Hi,
put

export PS1=$(hostname)':$PWD # '

in your

.bash_profile

Enrico

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Prasad,

Just export PS1 variable in your .profile,

export PS1="`tput bold``uname -n``tput rmso` \$PWD #"

This will display hostname in bold and PWD.

-Arun

[Prasad Joshi]

Thaks a lot.

[Raj D.]

Hi Prasad,

You can set Prompt also like this:

# export PS1="`tput smso` `hostname` : `tput rmso ; tput bold` \$PWD `tput rmso` > "



Cheers,
Raj.