command prompt

t. scott urban scottu at apptechsys.com
Tue Nov 16 07:51:02 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 07:38 +0000, freejay at tri-isys.com wrote:
> Hello, this is kind of a newbie question. The other day I logged on to our
> test Linux server here at work, I noticed that the command prompt changed from
> the normal "[root at localhost root]#" to "-bash-2.05b$". I think one of my
> colleagues changed something in the configurations. How is this possible?


One of countless "howto" docs you can google for:
http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/articles/custom-prompts.html

or man bash (man tcsh, man zsh, etc) - it's buried in there somwhere.


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t. scott urban <scottu at apptechsys.com>




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