On 04-Mar-01 Shalrath wrote:
| Greetings. I recently began toying around with my bash prompt and
| color,
| going from the information found here:
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| http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue64/3215.html
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| I would like to edit /etc/bashrc in such a way that root's bash
| prompt showed
| up as bright red, while my user accounts would be a light cyan.
|
| Nevermind, mission accomplished.
|
| under /etc/profile, I changed
|
|#PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
PS1="\[\033[1;36m\][\u@\h \w]\\$ "
Works for me ! (without the rest of it)
|
| and under /root/.bashrc, I added
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| PS1="\[\033[1;31m\][\u@\h \w]\\$\[\033[0;37m\] "
|
|
| This seems to work so far.
|
| Can anyone think of a more elegant way to do this?
| Could this be considered to be added to Mandrake?
|
| Jason Marsh
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Eric MC
E-Mail: Eric MC D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 04-Mar-01 Time: 14:04:34
RLU#165727
I trust the first lion he meets will do his duty.
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