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More informative bash prompt
- From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" <garbage_collector at telia dot com>
- To: "ML CygWIN" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:49:15 +0200
- Subject: More informative bash prompt
Well, whether this is useful might be a question of preference.
-- .profile --
# Make the prompt tell the last exit code among other things.
export PS1='\[\033]0;\w\007\033[32m\]\u@\
h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] \s (P)PID=($PPID)$$, s=$?\n$ '
--
DO append the two last lines above (i.e. ...\h... )
s == exit status of last command/pipe/...
Take it or leave it. ;-)
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems - 59°16.37'N,
17°12.60'E
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