04-24-2008
How to change the system prompt and BG of terminal?
Hi all,
I was wondering how to change the PS1 to my liking?
I tried changing it using PS1='my choice'
it worked but the subsequent terminals i open will not have it as the default PS1 ,how do i change it?
also i am running as super user, and i need to exec bash, to get the bash environment...
So whenever i exec bash, i get the
"bash3.2#" system prompt....
How to change it permanently?
Other question is how to change the BG color of the terminal?is there a pkg available that does it or can it be done out of the box?
Again i want this to be permanent so that every time i open terminal i should get the changed BG and not the default one?
PS: am using solaris B-79a
Thanks
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NAME
libbash -- A bash shared libraries package.
DESCRIPTION
libbash is a package that enables bash dynamic-like shared libraries. Actually its a tool for managing bash scripts whose functions you may
want to load and use in scripts of your own.
It contains a 'dynamic loader' for the shared libraries ( ldbash(1)), a configuration tool (ldbashconfig(8)), and some libraries.
Using ldbash(1) you are able to load loadable bash libraries, such as getopts(1) and hashstash(1). A bash shared library that can be loaded
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