Shell Programming and Scripting

Bash has different built-in escapes, some of which are especially for prompts. In bash, you can get a list of them from the man page... have you check the man page for sh on your system? (Note: some systems with bash installed will simply have a symbolic link from /bin/sh to /bin/bash)

For adding the hash to the prompt of root users, you might be able to do something like this with your /etc/profile :

Code:

PS1="whatever you want"
if [ ! "`id -u`" = "0" ]; then
      PS1="${PS1} # "
else
      PS1="${PS1} $ "
fi

Hope that helps a little...

Here's the URL related with this purpose.
+ http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/unixhelp...ment/env8.html
+ http://www.utexas.edu/cc/faqs/unix/Shell-prompt.html
+ http://rtl.netfilter.se:81/skijk/prompt/
and they are Googled.

Peace,

ah yes. Thanks for the info and links; this should give me enough to work with for now.
Peace.