Changing the BASH Prompt
 

Accidentally posted this in the general forum, meant to post it here.



Hi,

Fairly new to Linux here.

I would like to change my BASH prompt to the full path followed by the $.

When I add the line:

export PS1="[\w] \$ "

in my .bashrc file in my home directory, my prompt displays as:

[~] $

To see if maybe I was not putting the right information in the export line, I tried a couple more escape characters.

export PS1="[\d] \$ " displayed:

[Sun Mar 28] $

export PS1="[\W] \$ " displayed:

[pete] $

Here is my entire .bashrc file:

# .bashrc

# User specific aliases and functions

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi

export PS1="[\w] \$ "

And here is the value of my BASH_VERSION environment variable:

2.05b.0(1)-release

Does anyone know if the \w was deprecated?

If I have not provided enough information, please let me know
Any help would be appreciated, Thanks

Pete

It's all good, you just coincidently happen
to be in your home directory, which, in the
shells abbriviations, is ~ ... try a cd /usr
;)


Cheers,
Tink

DOH! lol.

Thanks Tink

Pleasure mate :}


And sorry, I didn't welcome you!

Welcome to LQ, I usually don't overlook the post-number :}




Cheers,
Tink

I always find this site useful:
Prompt Magic