Prompt Question

ynotssor wrote:
> "Jerry Criswell" <criswel.RemoveThis@mchsi.com> wrote in message
> news:ZEmVe.326194$_o.72367@attbi_s71
>
>
>>In the process of learning, I am attempting to change my terminal
>>prompt. According to both my book (Red Hat Fedora and Enterprise
>>Linux 4 Bible) and "man bash", \$ is supposed to show # or $
>>depending on who you are. This isn't working. The line in my
>>.bashrc file is:
>>
>>export PS1-"[\t \w ] \$ "
>>
>>What am I missing? Need anything else?
>
>
> export PROMPT_COMMAND='PS1="[\t \w ] \$ "'

That did it. Thanks a lot!

JC

PS: The missing = in the original message was a typo.

Jerry Criswell wrote:
> In the process of learning, I am attempting to change my terminal
> prompt. According to both my book (Red Hat Fedora and Enterprise Linux
> 4 Bible) and "man bash", \$ is supposed to show # or $ depending on who
> you are. This isn't working. The line in my .bashrc file is:
>
> export PS1-"[\t \w ] \$ "
>
> What am I missing? Need anything else?

The right version is:
export PS1='[\t \w ] \$ '

There were two problems:
1) minus instead of equal sign (I think, it was a typo)
2) quotation marks instead of apostrophes
If you use quotation marks, bash expands \$ to $ (because it thinks, you
escape $)
Example:
[10:57:53 ~ ] $ export PS1="[\t \w ] \$ "
[11:00:38 ~ ] $ echo $PS1
[\t \w ] $
[11:00:41 ~ ] $ export PS1='[\t \w ] \$ '
[11:00:49 ~ ] $ echo $PS1
[\t \w ] \$
[11:00:59 ~ ] $

I hope it's clear.

Bye, Zdenek Zikan