[X-Unix] Modifying .bashrc to display dns name of machine I'm logged into

[Our PAl Al]

On 10/13/04 10:20 AM, "Lewis, Benjamin (Ben)" <blewis3 at lucent.com> wrote:

>> Life would be much easier with my hostname in the prompt. How do I do that?
> 
> Hello Al
> 
> Try this (stolen from O'Reillys "Learning the bash shell")
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> PS1="\H> "
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> in your .bash_profile file. Or
> 
> PS1="\h> "
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> for the hostname up to the first dot.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ben

Thanks Ben :)