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From: mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Path in prompt !!?? help!
Date: 17 May 1996 20:33:57 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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References: <DrG8vz.HCE@student.twi.tudelft.nl> <4nf6ed$22s@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Honorable J Wunsch
wrote on 16 May (in article <4nf6ed$22s@uriah.heep.sax.de>):
=For shells like tcsh or bash, there's a bunch of configuration options
=for the shell prompt. Refer to the appropriate man page.
tcsh's prompt:
"%B%n%b@%m:%.3 (%h)"
%B - begin bold font
%n - user's Name
%b - end bold font
%m - Machine's name
%.3 - last three direcotires of the path
%h - number of the current command in the history
bash's PS1:
"\u@\h:\w (\!) "
Same, expcept, the lentgh of the path is not-limited, and there no
bold fonts.
-mi
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"Windows for dummies"