how do we change the command prompt? right now my prompt says

felix%

where felix is the machine i´m on. but how do we change it? for example, how can i make it say
me%

and how do we get it to tell us what directory we are under because when i change into a subdir then the prompt doesn´t change to include the subdir the way that dos works under windows.

thanks

The prompt for bash shells can be changed by altering the PS1 variable.

PS1 can be declared in the global /etc/bashrc file or in ~/.bashrc.

My shell prompt looks like the following


[Sat Jun 30 15:32 andy@prosentia andy]>

The PS1 variable in my ~/.bashrc file looks like the following
PS1="[\d \t \u@\h \W]>"


\d is date
\t time
\u user
@\h @hostname
\W basename for current directory

the bash man file has details on different flags to alter the prompt

if your current directory was /usr/bin

PS1="me \W>" would show: me bin>

PS1="me \w>" would show: me /usr/bin>

Andy Hibbins