[LUNI] Customize the PS1 promptMartin Maney maney at pobox.comThu Jun 5 19:29:45 CDT 2003
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:29:52PM -0500, doug_dallmer wrote: > I am trying to customize the PS1 prompt to include the full path that it is > currently in (ie: a "pwd" command) & ( including `pwd` doesn't work). $ PS1="\u@\h (`pwd`) \$ " maney at furrr (/home/maney) $ Or how 'bout: $ PS1="\u@\h(`tty|sed \"s/\/dev\///\"`)\w \$ " maney at furrr(pts/1)~ $ > According to the RedHat Linux 8 Bible I have this should be the inclusion of > the "\w"; however it only returns a "~" in the prompt. When I use a "\W" I > get the current workng directory as expected. This happens in both the 2.2 > and the 2.4 kernels. > > Any ideas about fixing it? The '~' will become more intersting if you ever cd to some other directory. \W should give you only the basename of the CWD: $ PS1="\u@\h(`tty|sed \"s/\/dev\///\"`)\W \$ " maney at furrr(pts/1)maney $ ... but your milage may vary, since this is all done by the shell (my examples are with bash). The idea with the '~' is that it uses $HOME-relative mode when you're within your login directory tree; it shifts to the full, explicit path when you venture out. One last example that's only useful in an xterm: $ PS1="\[\033]0;(`tty|sed \"s/\/dev\///\"`) \u@\h:\w\007\]$ " $ -- There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked. -- Twain
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