newbie PS1 config question
Niels Roetert
fedora-list at roetert.dyndns.org
Sun Jan 25 20:59:47 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 18:41, Ko Pu wrote:
> PS1 question:
> How can I change the PS to display the current directory? According to
> documentation, the \w should show the current directory, but when I used it,
> it showed ~, what I'm looking for is to display info similar to pwd.
>
> prompt question:
> I'm using dsl modem, so the ip address is dynamic, and the prompt showed the
> ip address, how can I change it to my computer name? I added it to my
> /etc/host but I still got the ip address. This is what I have in my prompt.
> [kpu at d209-121-129-174 Linux]$
>
> Thanks in advance for your comment/suggestion
>
> Ko Fei Pu
> mailto:ko_pu at nospamhotmail.com
>
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I always put the following line in my ~/.bashrc
PS1=`echo "("'${PWD}'") "`
Works for me.
Greeting, Niels.
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