how to change the prompt in Cygwin

[Greg Chicares]

On 2008-01-05 04:26Z, sun wrote:
> 
> Could you please help on how to remove the path display in my Cygwin?
> It looks like following and I don't like it:
> 
> user@mymachien /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Desktop
> $
> 
> I want to change to
> 
> user@mymachien$

Add a line like
  export PS1='\u$'
to file '~/.bashrc'. If you want to customize it more, do
  man bash
and look for special characters used in PS1.

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