On 7/17/05, Alex Yarmol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How I can chage my bash prompt to this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] directory-name(e. g. "alex" for /usr/home/alex)]$ > > I assume that I need to do that: > > export PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED] \(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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ cd /usr/local/etc [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]$ which tend to prefer to the full path, but you didn't ask what I prefer :-) Aaron _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
