Changing cygwin account name (cygwin only)
Marco Atzeri
marco_atzeri@yahoo.it
Mon Mar 31 11:42:00 GMT 2008
--- Hussein Patwa ha scritto:
> One more question though, how can I change the way
> bash (and tcsh as I
> sometimes use it for a change) display the type
> prompt? I use a screen
> reader and it can get tedious hearing it read out
> the whole user@host each
> time the prompt appears. Can I change it to just
> user, or rename the host
> part (which is a random laptop name ACER-12345678
> for example) to say just
> patwa@laptop without changing the windows name for
> it? I'd experiment with
> passwd, but I'm not sure if the machine name given
> in there is taken from
> windows, or whether it would break if I changed it.
> Hope this makes sense.
> Sorry, but after all the problems, download,
> install, delete, re-install
> cycles I've had this weekend I'm weary of doing
> anything on my own that
> might break what's an almost perfect setup now.
>
to redefine the prompt you need to assign a
new value to variable PS1
for your scope should be something simple as
PS1='\w\n\$ '
so you have only the current directory and no
username and host.
http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/howtos/Bash-Prompt/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO-2.html
To define it permanenly, add the command to the
file .bashrc in your home dir.
Regards
Marco
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