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WhO_KnOwS
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 Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 4:09 pm Post subject: bash-2.05b$ --> user@home# |
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I know that the topic title is a little odd, but I don't know how to name it in any other way. My question is the following:
In all Linux distros so far when I opened the konsole the prompt looked something like this "root@home#". It looks like this on the LiveCD as well. But in gentoo all I get is "bash-2.05b$". How can I change this?
P.S.: Please be specific as I am still trying to find myself in gentoo.
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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WhO_KnOwS,
Look in your ~/.bashrc file.
Theres noy a lot there but in the bottom half it sets your xterm prompt.
Fiddle with that.
man bash may help too.
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Sefthuko
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:08 pm Post subject: user@home |
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Well, I know that if I run
| Code: | | source /etc/profile |
I get the root@home# prompt. So, a quick way of getting it would be to open up your ~/.bashrc and shove the above line of code in it somewhere.
If you want it to be global, I really don't know. I searched my hard drive, and there's a copy of .bashrc in /etc/skel... perhaps that's the default .bashrc file? Hope this helps. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Sefthuko,
/etc/skel... is what is used to copy to new user accounts (if you want) when you create a new user.
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Cr0t
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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try that one... | Code: | | PS1="\[\033[0;36m\]\t\[\033[1;35m\]^\\[\033[0;32m\]\u\[\033[1;34m\]@\[\033[0;32m\]\\h\[\033[1;35m\]:\[\033[1;33m\]\w\[\033[0m\]\\[\033[1;34m\] > \[\033[0m\]" |
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manywele
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | try that one...
Code:
PS1="\[\033[0;36m\]\t\[\033[1;35m\]^\\[\033[0;32m\]\u\[\033[1;34m\]@\[\033[0;32m\]\\h\[\033[1;35m\]:\[\033[1;33m\]\w\[\033[0m\]\\[\033[1;34m\] > \[\033[0m\]" |
You know, I've seen things like this on the forums for changing colour and content of prompts. But I have yet to find an explanation, even in man bash, for what all those backslashes, numbers and letters do. Can someone point to a place that makes all that obscure stuff understandable? |
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NuclearFusi0n
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2003 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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export PS1="\[\033[1;36m\]\w\n\[\033[1;32m\]\u@\h: \[\033[1;34m\]\[\033[37m\]\$(/bin/ls -1 | /usr/bin/wc -l | /bin/sed 's: ::g') files \[\033[1;33m\]\$(/bin/ls -lah | /bin/grep -m 1 total | /bin/sed 's/total //')b\[\033[0m\] \\$ \[\033[00m\]"
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Brandy
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| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 12:27 am Post subject: |
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Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Duplicate Threads. There is a rather nice thread about the konsole prompt here. A lot of information about colour codes (among other things) in bash can be found here.
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