Found all the answers at:
www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/index.html
Paul
On Sunday 26 October 2003 02:38 pm, Richard Urwin wrote:
> On Sunday 26 Oct 2003 6:02 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> > After installing 9.2 the user shell prompt reads "bash_2.05$". How do I
> > get it to read "[EMAIL PROTECTED] user]", the default in 9.1?
> > TIA,
> > Paul
>
> man bash
>
> On 9.1, mine says:
> PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ${PWD}\007"'
> PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\$ '
> PS2='> '
> PS4='+ '
>
> I don't understand all that, but man bash says:
>
> PROMPT_COMMAND
> If set, the value is executed as a command prior to issuing
> each primary prompt.
> PS1 The value of this parameter is expanded (see PROMPTING
> below) and used as the primary prompt string. The default value is
> ``\s-\v\$ ''.
> PS2 The value of this parameter is expanded as with PS1 and used
> as the secondary prompt string. The default is ``> ''. PS3 The value of
> this parameter is used as the prompt for the select command (see SHELL
> GRAMMAR above).
> PS4 The value of this parameter is expanded as with PS1 and
> the value is printed before each command bash displays during an
> execution trace. The first character of PS4 is replicated mul- tiple
> times, as necessary, to indicate multiple levels of indi- rection. The
> default is ``+ ''.
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