DZone Snippets: prompt code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:39:41 GMT DZone Snippets: prompt code Changing the Bash prompt http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5349 The following shell command changes the bash prompt from this "james@cryton:~/projects/pear_housekeeping2/housekeeping$" to this "james@cryton> " <br /><code> <br />export PS1="\n\u@\H>" <br /></code> <br /> <br />I tried the above example on Ubuntu 7.10. <br /> <br />Reference: <br /><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tip-prompt/">Tip: Prompt magic</a> [ibm.com] <br /><a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/">Bash Prompt HOWTO</a> [tldp.org] Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:43:21 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5349 jrobertson (James Robertson) Mail a file as an attachment from the UNIX prompt http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/589 <code>uuencode file.txt file.txt | mail email@address.com</code> Mon, 22 Aug 2005 03:34:44 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/589 peter (Peter Cooperx)