Jonathan Edwards wrote:

On Aug 30, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Cyril Plisko wrote:

Hi !

This weekend I converted my laptop to OpenSolaris. I noticed that the
default user shell is bash and user home directory is populated with
~/.bashrc that defines prompt as

#
# Define default prompt to <username>@<hostname>:<path><"($|#) ">
# and print '#' for user "root" and '$' for normal users.
#
PS1='${logna...@$(/usr/bin/hostname):$(
   [[ "${LOGNAME}" == "root" ]] && printf "%s" "${PWD/${HOME}/~}# " ||
   printf "%s" "${PWD/${HOME}/~}\$ ")'


Is there any reason why it cannot be just

PS1="\...@\h:\w\$ "

?


haha - yep, one of the first things i change .. my guess is it that it's left over from either an old bourne shell compatibility or perhaps from the great ksh93 debate .. (of course this also is a bit chatty if you boot into a miniroot since /usr/bin/hostname doesn't exist) .. feel free to webrev patch it - particularly for bash if you've got the inclination :)

Personally, I prefer the new prompt. And if I recall correctly, this was an intentional change that is more in line with what other distributions do.

Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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