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James Robertson http://www.r0bertson.co.uk

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Changing the Bash prompt

The following shell command changes the bash prompt from this "james@cryton:~/projects/pear_housekeeping2/housekeeping$" to this "james@cryton> "
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   2  export PS1="\n\u@\H>"


I tried the above example on Ubuntu 7.10.

Reference:
Tip: Prompt magic [ibm.com]
Bash Prompt HOWTO [tldp.org]
to bash shell prompt export ps1 by jrobertson on Apr 11, 2008
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