Setting the shell prompt to display directory path information.

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 24.11.2004 schrieb David Hodge um 15:09:

> I want to be able to display the full path to where I currently am in
> the file system on the shell prompt like:
> 
> [userid/directory/subdirectory/subdirectory]  I think that the
> following will do the job:
> 
> PS1="[\u\w]"
> 
> Now where do I place this setting so that it executes when I or any
> other users logs in to an FC2 server console.

I have in my ~/.bashrc - the .bashrc file in the user's home directory -
following PS1 (1 single line, no break):

PS1='\n\[\033[1;34m\][\d \t]\[\033[00m\]
\[\033[0;31m\][\u@\h]\[\033[00m\] \[\033[0;36m\]<`tty | sed -e
"s:/dev/::"`>\[\033[00m\]
\[\033[0;33m\]`pwd`\[\033[00m\]\n\[\033[1;31m\]\n\W\[\033[00m\] $ '

You could too change the default setting in /etc/bashrc, which comes
form following line:

[ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "

Btw. you can simply try out the PS1, it will not damage anything and you
can easily comes back to the standard and simple one.

Alexander


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