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IcEonFirE
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HI
I have red some documentation about bash but I still have something I'd like to change a thing;
the prompt is shown like theis [user@hostname ~] i would like to be able of displaying the home directory instead of the
~.
Any idea please ?
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dgaffuri
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IcEonFirE
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Hi
Thanks fo replying but I still got the ~ instead of the current directory. and besides I have discovered another anomalie while i logged in to serial console i prompt color became in white instead of green and blue
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Genone
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| IcEonFirE wrote: | Hi
Thanks fo replying but I still got the ~ instead of the current directory. and besides I have discovered another anomalie while i logged in to serial console i prompt color became in white instead of green and blue
any idea please? |
Well, the bash info pages don't provide an option to show $HOME as a normal dir in the prompt, so it's probably not possible with the normal $PSx vars, however it's possible to get what you want by using PROMPT_COMMAND="pwd", but I really wouldn't recommend it.
As for the other issue, serial consoles generally don't support colors AFAIK. |
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alok_singhal
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| Code: | | export PS1='$PWD: \$ ' |
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