"Michael D. Schleif" wrote:
>
> Rob Fegley wrote:
> >
> > I've tried about fifteen ways to get the prompt to look like this:
> >
> > [root@firewall /usr/sbin]# <--- where "/usr/sbin" is a current working directory
>
> I use bash; so, I cannot vouch for ash:
>
> # PS1=`echo -n -e "[$USER@$HOSTNAME $HOME]# "`
> [root@trout /root]#
Sorry, that was incomplete. This ia what I do:
Put this in /etc/profile:
# Set the prompt else than login
cdprompt () {
command cd $@
export PS1=`echo -n -e "\n$USER@$HOSTNAME:$PWD\n# "`
}
alias cd=cdprompt
Then, I put this in ~/.profile:
export PS1=`echo -n -e "\n$USER@$HOSTNAME:$HOME\n# "`
Obviously, you can modify those variable strings to do pretty much
anything you want to see; but, again, this is working under bash and not
ash . . .
hth
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