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

[Alexandre Gauthier]

Our PAl Al wrote:

>On 10/13/04 10:20 AM, "Lewis, Benjamin (Ben)" <blewis3 at lucent.com> wrote:
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>>>Life would be much easier with my hostname in the prompt. How do I do that?
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>>Hello Al
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>>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
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>>PS1="\h> "
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>>for the hostname up to the first dot.
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>>Regards
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In a more specific manner, to get something that looks like the default 
red-hat prompt,

PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$

or to get the prompt I personally love and use (full paths):

PS1='\[\33[1;37\][\!]\[\33[1;32\]\@\:\[\33[1;34\]\ $ \[\33[\]'



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