Thanks for that, Markus, that works.

~ Eric.

From: Markus Metz <markus.metz.gisw...@gmail.com>
Sent: February 28, 2019 12:08
To: Patton, Eric (NRCan/RNCan) <eric.pat...@canada.ca>
Cc: grass-user@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Unable to modify PS1 variable



On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 3:21 PM Patton, Eric (NRCan/RNCan) 
<eric.pat...@canada.ca<mailto:eric.pat...@canada.ca>> wrote:
>
> Hi, I am having trouble changing my PS1 bash prompt in Grass 7.7svn. I have 
> PS1 set to “\W >” in ~/.grass.bashrc, but instead my prompt consistently 
> prints
>
> “GRASS 7.7.svn ($LOCATION_NAME):\w > “  (with LOCATION_NAME and \W expanded 
> to current Grass location and full directory path, respectively). The result 
> is my prompt is eating almost the full width of my shell window.
>
> Just wondering what other resource files need to be changed?

You could directly hack the GRASS startup script grass77, there in the fn 
bash_startup() the line that defines PS1, around L1772.

HTH,

Markus M

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