On Aug 30, 2009, at 8:04 PM, Shawn Walker wrote:
~/.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.
erm - i think that should be with single quotes as the point is that
the 2 do the exact same thing (see PROMPTING in the bash man page) -
it's just that:
PS1='\...@\h:\w\$ '
is more compact and cleaner for a .bashrc (which i presume is only
going to be used by bash) .. and it also doesn't call another binary
every time you display the prompt
---
.je
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