Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 00:19:29 -0800 (PST) From: baron@penguinpowered.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: \$ in bash (was Re: window manager question) Message-ID: <20000106081929.6417.qmail@tatooine.primus.ca>
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>There is only one problem. My .rc files have this setup, as you >described, but modified for bash: >if [[ $EUID -eq 0 ]]; then > PS1="root@\h\w\$" >else > PS1="joseph@\h\w\$" >fi >According to the man page on bash, the "$" is supposed to show up as "#" >if uid is 0, otherwise it will show as "$". It doesn't do this, >however. It always shows up as "$", regardless of uid. I'd recommend adding this line to your ~/.bashrc export PS1='\u@\h\w\$ ' This works wonderfully for me, hope it does the same for you. Cheers, Michael Coulter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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