> Hi,
>
> On Hamm, if I login as root or while logged in as myself do a "su"
> then my shell prompt shows the host and current directory.
>
> When I am logged in as myself my prompt is just a $
>
> I much prefer to see the current directory in my prompt. So how do
> I change it?
>
> My guess was that the .bashrc in my home directory needed the
> same PS1 environment as the .bashrc in the root directory so I
> added
>
> export PS1='\h:\w\$ '
You want to put this line in BOTH .bashrc (for non-login shells) and
.bash_profile (for login shells). The manpage bash(1) explains which
files are loaded when.
Julian
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Dept of Mathematical Sciences,
Queen Mary & Westfield College,
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