Re: OT: shell prompt tip

2000-09-18 Thread kmself
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:57:20PM +0200, Julio Merino ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > NOTE that this is OFFTOPIC. > > would you like to recognize fastly if you're a normal user or root? > Change the default debian PS1 to something like this for your user: > > PS1='\[\e[22m\e[40m\e

Re: OT: shell prompt tip

2000-09-17 Thread Julio Merino
Oh, another thing I've added to remember how many jobs I have in the background. This only apperes where there are jobs, but if not, it doesn't apperes. function jobcount { JOBS=`jobs | wc -l | awk {'print $1'}` [ $JOBS != 0 ] && echo -n "$JOBS:" } PS1='\[\e[22m\e[40m\e[32m\]\h:`jobcount`\

Re: OT: shell prompt tip

2000-09-16 Thread Sven Gaerner
If your shell is bash then zou can create aliases. Write in .bashrc something like alias cd='cd ../../..' This allows you to type cd on the command line to go 3 directories up. Sven At Sat, 16 Sep 2000 09:40:07 +0100 (BST), Simon Hales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000,

Re: OT: shell prompt tip

2000-09-16 Thread Simon Hales
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, J.P. Larocque wrote: >On an unrelated note, I'm *fairly* new to Linux (or UNIX in general), only >having been using it for about a year. In the DOS command-interpreter 4DOS, >I could refer to parent directories as . and .. as is the norm in DOS and UNIX. >But I could also typ

Re: OT: shell prompt tip

2000-09-15 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
i know - i'm replying to my own post ... :) unquoted lines are changed > cd() { local p="$1" > while :; do local np="${p//.../../..}" > test "$p" == "$np" && break > p="$np" > done > builtin cd "$p" > } greetings -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.sig

Re: OT: shell prompt tip

2000-09-15 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> On an unrelated note, I'm *fairly* new to Linux (or UNIX in general), only > having been using it for about a year. In the DOS command-interpreter 4DOS, > I could refer to parent directories as . and .. as is the norm in DOS and > UNIX. > But I could also type, say, "cd ", which would be eq

Re: OT: shell prompt tip

2000-09-14 Thread J.P. Larocque
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:57:20PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: > would you like to recognize fastly if you're a normal user or root? > Change the default debian PS1 to something like this for your user: > > PS1='\[\e[22m\e[40m\e[32m\]\h:\w\$\[\e[22m\e[40m\e[37m\] ' My /etc/profile has the long