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Old 06-23-2005
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the prompt variable in the bash (and ksh, sh, zsh) shell is call $PS1. for example my prompt :
export PS1="`id |cut -d '(' -f2|cut -d ')' -f1' '`@`uname -n` # "
which produce:
pressy@computer #

greetings PRESSY
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