Re: bash prompt question

Le 19/09/2024 à 13:20, Chris Elvidge a écrit :

On 19/09/2024 at 11:34, François Patte wrote:

Bonjour,
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Wanting to personalize my bash prompt I wrote in my .bashrc file (with the help of "Learning the BASH shell"):
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  export PS1='\[\e[1;35m\]\u@\h -\d- ${text} \W\[\e[m]\]\$ '

 try export PS1='\[\e[1;35m\]\u@\h -\d- ${text} \W\[\e[00m\]\$ '

I will try this. Thank you.

 where do you set $text?

I don't know! That's strange... I did this a long time ago and I can't remember where I picked up this.
Doing "echo $text" on a local machine, this returns nothing and on a remote one, I get ssh (of course, I am logged to the remote machine, using ssh)
Thank you for helping
F.P.