11
Mar
Posted by Derek@TheDailyLinux in Tips and Tricks » Add Comment »
The Terminal Prompt Environment Variable $PS1 and Others
A quick and dirty way to change your terminal prompt is to edit the ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile files to include the line:
PS1="specify_prompt_here"
One example prompt would be to simply print the hostname followed by a colon:
PS1="\h : "
Vivek Gite of cyberciti.biz has a really good write-up of utilizing the PS1 environment variable as well as others which can be found here:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-unix-bash-shell-setup-prompt.html
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