How to change command line appearance.

[Umapathy S · Accepted solution]

Vlad, if I understand correctly then this will do
export PS1=$LOGNAME@$(hostname):'$PWD : '

Put this in your .profile.

HTH,
Umapathy

[Pete Randall]

export PS1="`hostname`(!)`whoami`# "


Pete

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi vlad,

could you give some more detail?

greetings,

Michael

[Vlad_11]

Thanks to all.
Just hit enter before completed my question.
But you got it !
Now I know how to make my command line prefix to look in the way I want.

Vlad

[Doug Burton]

Kinda cute... If you use DTterm then export PS1 to have a color prompt.


PS1="$(echo "\\033[40m\\033[33m")"'$LOGNAME'@$(hostname)"-$(echo "\\033[36m")"'$PWD'"$(echo "\\033[0m") : "