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Subject: Re: Bash: Setting Prompt
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On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 06:26:53AM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> I have the following in my '.bash_profile' file.
> #
> #	Set the prompt to display the 'user@host' and the working 
> #	directory with a '#' for root and '$' for user.
> #
> PS1="\u@\h \w "
> case 'id -u' in
> 	0) PS1="${PS1}# ";;
> 	*) PS1="${PS1}$ ";;
> esac

Okay you can do that or if you are using bash 2.05 or above, just do
this
PS1='\u@\h \w \$ '

The \$ is clever and is a # if you are root, and $ if you are not.

This is from my ~/.bashrc
export PS1='\[\e]2;\h:\w\a\e[1;32m\]\u@\h\[\e[m\]:\[\e[1;34m\]\w\[\e[m\]\$ '


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