On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Jonathan
Edwards<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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\$ '
Yes, single quotes, of course.
> 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
>
--
Regards,
Cyril
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