Shell Prompt in KDE

bongski55 · 06-27-2003, 12:27 PM

Where is the file to edit/customize the shell prompt? I have a bash shell. Tried to look for bashrc or bash_profile but seems it is different in slack.

ArnaudVR · 06-27-2003, 04:08 PM

you're probably looking for /etc/profile or /etc/profile.d but you can always add the configuration files you wanted into your home directory for a more personal config.

Locura · 06-27-2003, 05:24 PM

man bash

Look for the section on prompting. Put the following in your .bash_profile:

export PS1=prompt

Where prompt is a prompt using the format found in the man page, in the prompting section.

Here is mine:

export PS1="[\u@\h \W]\$ "

bongski55 · 06-28-2003, 02:08 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Locura
man bash

Look for the section on prompting. Put the following in your .bash_profile:

export PS1=prompt

Where prompt is a prompt using the format found in the man page, in the prompting section.

Here is mine:

export PS1="[\u@\h \W]\$ "

Where is this .bash_profile?

2damncommon · 06-28-2003, 11:22 AM

Quote:

Where is this .bash_profile?

Try an 'ls -la' in your home directory to see the "dot" files.

bongski55 · 06-28-2003, 11:52 AM

Not anywhere -be it in root or my home directory. Ieven did a file find but it is not there!

2damncommon · 06-28-2003, 02:19 PM

Looks like the Slack book talks about using 'set'.

bongski55 · 06-29-2003, 12:21 AM

Okay I found the "secret" of slackware.
ArnaudVR was right. It is /etc/profile that controls the shell prompt in my slack 9. And it also does it automatically by use of if --else for each possible shell anybody selects.

Thanks everyone!