OK, I did a search in Debian user's and came up with the the following to change my prompt:
In /etc/profile I added the line, export PS1='\h:\w\$ ' This is the readout I got, crossyourfingers:~$ This wasn't what I wanted I only want the current working directory to show. I took a look at the man page for bash. It said that "\w" would list my working directory. So I tried the following: If I use, export PS1='\w:\\$ ' I get, ~:$ I tried several other combinations, a few I tried, \w\ \w:\w\ None of these worked. Here is what my /etc/profile looks like: ~:$ cat /etc/profile # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1). PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/local/netscape:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/kent" export PATH PS1 export PS1='\w:\\$ ' setleds -D +num$ umask 002 /usr/bin/check-sendfile What am I doing wrong here? I just want my prompt, as a regular user, to look something like this: /home/kent $ As root my prompt has the working directory listed. Where is the file for the root prompt? Maybe I could just look there and figure out how to set my regular user prompt? Thanks, Kent
