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Changing your shell prompt

The prompt environmental variable is PS1. This is configured in .bashrc. For example, the following sets the prompt,
[amit@onyx]: export PS1="[\u@\h]\w $"
There are a number of control sequences defined inside the PS1 variable: for example, \u is the username, \h is the hostname of the system and \w is the current directory. The bash man page has many more - search the bash man page for PS1 for a complete list.



Amit Jain 2013-04-22