[SOLVED] command line not showing path

wisdom · 11-06-2009, 02:13 PM

I am using fedora 9 and gnome desktop, my problem is this, i remove all the hidden files from my home directory because i needed to basically so i could get the standard desktop back without my own configuration, however i notice after that when i load up the terminal I get the following

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-bash-3.2$ su

And I have to sudo in order to see any shell related information to the user who I am login under. as shown below

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[root@linuxbox username]#

Any idea how i can stop it loading stright to

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-bash-3.2$ su

and back to the normal way in which I had it setup before showing the username and the machine name?
thanks

bertl · 11-06-2009, 02:37 PM

You will have probably had a .profile or .bash_profile file in there that a snippet like this in there (this is taken from Ubuntu, not identical but a good base):

Code:

if [ "$PS1" ]; then
  if [ "$BASH" ]; then
    PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '
    if [ -f /etc/bash.bashrc ]; then
	. /etc/bash.bashrc
    fi
  else
    if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
      PS1='# '
    else
      PS1='$ '
    fi
  fi
fi

Hope that helps - Bert

wisdom · 11-06-2009, 02:44 PM

Never mind I have solved the issue all I had to do is copy the following files to my own home directory from another account.

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.bash_history .bash_logout .bash_profile .bashrc

colucix · 11-06-2009, 02:56 PM

You can just copy the files

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/etc/skel/.bashrc
/etc/skel/.bash_profile
/etc/skel/.bash_logout

into your home directory. These are actually the files copied into new user's home, when it is created. The /etc/skel method appeared in the very first linux distributions and its purpose is to let the system administrator to add customization for all the users. He/she just modifies the "skeleton" files, being sure they are copied into the home of every newly created user.

This mechanism is also used from software other than bash. For example in Fedora 9 you will find hidden files and directory coming from libgnome, mozilla and zsh.

You can easily verify this behaviour by adding a test user and look at the hidden files placed in its home dir, but before doing the first graphical login (a process which adds many more hidden configuration files and directories).

colucix · 11-06-2009, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by wisdom

Never mind I have solved the issue all I had to do is copy the following files to my own home directory from another account.

Good. Just take in mind that by copying the .bash_history file, you inherit the bash history from another user. Indeed .bash_history is created (or updated if already there) upon closing a shell session. This process and its behaviour depends on some environment variables. See man bash and look for the HISTORY section for more details.