Timeline for How to change the prompt in Linux?
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Feb 14, 2021 at 8:16 | comment | added | Avery Freeman | Note: Was having trouble with $ not turning to #. Apparently in solaris /etc/profile PS1 UID marker must be escaped twice: \\$ | |
| Apr 2, 2019 at 1:19 | comment | added | Peter Mortensen | Yes, but how exactly? Can you provide some examples? | |
| Jan 5, 2014 at 8:38 | history | edited | derobert | CC BY-SA 3.0 | kill broken highlight. |
| S Sep 23, 2012 at 10:32 | history | edited | Mat | CC BY-SA 3.0 | removed useless phrase; improved formatting; added meaning of \$; PS1 content was not consistent with displayed text |
| S Sep 23, 2012 at 10:32 | history | suggested | user22304 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | removed useless phrase; improved formatting; added meaning of \$; PS1 content was not consistent with displayed text |
| Sep 23, 2012 at 10:30 | comment | added | user22304 | For details, see the PROMPTING section with man bash. | |
| Sep 23, 2012 at 10:29 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Apr 6, 2012 at 23:44 | comment | added | tshepang | By changing them, you can change.? | |
| Apr 5, 2012 at 8:43 | vote | accept | monu | ||
| Apr 5, 2012 at 7:39 | comment | added | manatwork | ~/.bashrc is not executed every time a user logs in. “When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists.” – man bash /INVOCATION | |
| Apr 5, 2012 at 7:11 | history | edited | pradeepchhetri | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 175 characters in body |
| Apr 5, 2012 at 6:55 | comment | added | Keith | Don't forget to put it into your ~/.bashrc file also. e.g. `PS1="myname \\$ "'. | |
| Apr 5, 2012 at 6:40 | history | answered | pradeepchhetri | CC BY-SA 3.0 |