Prompt

[navin]

I have set up my prompt to reflect my hostname and $ ,i would like to set the prompt with current working dirc like
hostname$/
hostname$/cd /sbin
hostname$/sbin
Please help to set this up.Thanks for the help .

[Rodney Hills]

Here is what I use-
export PS1='myhost ${PWD##*/} # '

This doesnt put the whole path in the prompt, just the last directory (I don't like real long prompt strings...)

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Dave La Mar]

Navin -
This is what we use -

PS1="$(hostname):\$PWD
$"

which will look like this -

bcprod:/home/dlamar
$


Best Regards,

dl

[A. Clay Stephenson]

In your .profile:

PS1=`hostname`':${PWD}>'
export PS1

NOTE: Depending upon your font, the backticks may be indistinguishable from the single quote. The backticks surround the hostname command and the sigle quotes surround the remainder. I did make yours a bit more readable with ':' and '>' but you can remove those if you like.

[Michael Tully]

Here is my rendition:

PS1="$LOGNAME@`uname -n`:"'$PWD'" ! $ "
export PS1

Regards
Michael
"When I have trouble spelling, it's called fat finger syndrome"

[Bill Hassell]

As mentioned, the current pwd may get pretty long but just the basename may look the same (like bin in /usr/local/bin and /usr/contrib/bin) so here is PS1 with the last 2 directories:

PS1='$LOGNAME ${PWD##${PWD%/*/*}/} '

[Geoff Wild]

Here's what I add to root .profile (the logging is cool - as it keeps a history of all admins who su to root):

# Set up logging
HISTFILE=${HOME}/.sh_history_`who am i|awk '{ print $1}'`
date >>$HISTFILE
export HISTFILE
HISTSIZE=500
export HISTSIZE

# Set up shell environment:

HOST=`uname -n`
PS1="\$HOST:\$LOGNAME:\$PWD # ";export PS1
stty erase ^H


Rgds...Geoff

[navin]

All your replies are really helpful,it worked.Thank you very much.

[twang]

we use in profile:
export PS1="$LOGNAME@`hostname`$ "