How to set the prompt os it shows current working directory

Mike Burger mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Thu Nov 9 12:48:04 UTC 2006


Actually, in your example, below, "~" is the current working directory. 
"~" is the shortcut for your home directory.

> How do I set the prompt in RHEL 4 so that it shows the current working
> directory when you login and whenever you change directories. When I
> initially log in it doesn't show me the home directory of the oracle
> account. When I cd to /u01 it shows that in the prompt and then when I
> cd to /u01/app it shows that but when I then cd to oracle it doesn't
> show it.
>
> I have this command in my .bash_profile is this correct?
>
> export PS1="[\h:\w]$ "
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Martini
> LLNL
>
> [root@~]# su - oracle
> [ct:~]$
> [ct:~]$ pwd
> /u01/app/oracle
> [ct:~]$ cd /u01
> [ct:/u01]$ cd app
> [ct:/u01/app]$ cd oracle
> [ct:~]$
> [ct:~]$
> [ct:~]$
> [ct:~]$ more .bash_profile
> # .bash_profile
>
> # Get the aliases and functions
> if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
>          . ~/.bashrc
> fi
>
> # User specific environment and startup programs
>
> PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
>
> export PATH
> unset USERNAME
> export PS1="[\h:\w]$ "
> [ct:~]$
>
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