UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello,
I am using below in my .bashrc to dynamically display user/host/directory information whenever i logged in to my Red hat Linux 64bit OS, BASH shell.

Code:

export PS1=[${LOGNAME}@$(hostname)]'$PWD>'

output:

Code:

[user1@hostname]/dbms/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1>

But i want to display absolute path information to be displayed as shown below with highlighted in some background color(white/black) just absolute path portion of it, please help.

Expected Output:

Code:

/dbms/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1
[user1@hostname]>

Thank you

Nice idea. Long paths often mess up my prompt too.

Code:

export PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]$PWD\[\033[00m\]\n[${LOGNAME}@$(hostname)]> '

Play with the 01;32m to get the colors you want. 01 is bold, 30-37 are foreground colors, 40-47 are background colors, and you can stack them with ;. To get yellow-on-blue I did 01;44;33m

00 just means 'default', so the code before the newline just sets colors back to normal.