Re: a grab bag of customizations

At Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:39:51 -0700 Phred Phungus <Phred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Robert Heller wrote:
At Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:14:54 -0700 Phred Phungus <Phred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello newsgroup,

I continue to enjoy using the linux platform and would like to modify it
in ways that are beyond my current game.

When I installed, I was asked for a name and gave a nice, short one:
dan. Thereafter, every time I bring up a terminal, it looks like this:

dan@dan-desktop:~$ locate tja42

How can I shorten this prompt? $ would work splendidly.

man bash

Then search for 'PROMPTING' (type: '/prompting' at the ':' prompt).
Then read what it says there.

(The 'man' command displays the manual page for the command you specify.
Type 'man man' for more informaion abou the man command itself.)


Well I've really screwed the pooch here. Apparently what you're
supposed to do is change PS1 in bashrc. Well which bashrc:

dan@dan-desktop:~$ locate bashrc
/etc/bash.bashrc
/etc/skel/.bashrc
/home/dan/.bashrc
/usr/share/base-files/dot.bashrc
/usr/share/doc/adduser/examples/adduser.local.conf.examples/bash.bashrc
/usr/share/doc/adduser/examples/adduser.local.conf.examples/skel/dot.bashrc
dan@dan-desktop:~$

[could only paste as quotation]

One of the 9,750,000 hits recommended that one change the first. I did
that, and now everything has gone wonky. Thunderbird keeps prompting me
for my new identity even though I've changed it back.

Does anyone know which bashrc to change?

You should only mess with the one in your home directory, unless you
really know what you are doing. So the correct one is

/home/dan/.bashrc




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