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From: Aaron Peterson <dopplecoder@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Bash prompt
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On 7/17/05, Alex Yarmol <alex.yarmol@gmail.com> wrote:
> How I can chage my bash prompt to this:
>=20
> [user@host directory-name(e. g. "alex" for /usr/home/alex)]$
>=20
> I assume that I need to do that:
>=20
> export PS1=3D'[\u@\h \(here i don't know what to do, i assume, that I
> need to write "\p" or "\P", but it's not working)]\$

\w lowercase should give you the full path
\W uppercase gives the last component of the path, so given:

[user@host /]$ cd /usr/local/etc
[user@host etc]$

which tend to prefer to the full path, but you didn't ask what I prefer :-)
Aaron