On Wednesday 4 October 2006 03:57, james wrote:

> Well when I ssh into a remote system, bash detects this (hostname)
> and displays the hostname in the prompt(command line)
> automatically. So it is possible,

I'd say that you got the remote hostname in the prompt because you are in 
effect running bash *on the remote system* and seeing its output, not 
because bash "detects" the hostname.
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