Tim: > > Depending on your terminal, you *may* be able to have the full path > > showing in the title bar, and just the current directory name at the > > command prompt. > > > > Changing the \w to \W in your PS1= .bashrc string does it for some of > > them (just shows the last directory of the filepath). > > > > By way of example, typing this into my command line let me change the > > current prompt without making permanent changes to my settings: > > > > export PS1="[\u@\h \W]$ " > > > > [username@hostname directory]$ Robert Moskowitz: > That is quite better than what I hand coded, as it tracks changes in > the current directory. > > > > Maybe to add coloration. I deliberately left colouring out for a simple example, but I normally have this in my ~/.bashrc file: export PS1="\[\e[44m\][\u@\h \w]\$\[\e[0m\] " Which gives me the full path, and colouring. If I change the \w to \W by typing this into the command line: export PS1="\[\e[44m\][\u@\h \W]\$\[\e[0m\] " Then the command line changes to just the last directory name before the prompt, but my Mate terminal window title bar is still showing the full path. I get the prompt prefix back-coloured blue, and the rest of the line goes back to normal. I do something similar for root, but have it back-coloured red. It makes it easier to see where a command line was written when scrolling back through a long output. Of course typing all that would be a pain, so you could either play cut and paste games with .bashrc, or make it into an alias, or write a script. You could add the following to your ~/.bashrc under where it tells you to put user-specific aliases and functions: alias short='export PS1="\[\e[44m\][\u@\h \W]\$\[\e[0m\] "' alias long='export PS1="\[\e[44m\][\u@\h \w]\$\[\e[0m\] "' Now typing short or long into the command line sets prompt accordingly. I don't think those aliases are stomping on anything else that currently exists (at least they don't on my system). Or, for the sake of a silly example, one could go mad, and colour the path different from other things in the prompt prefix: PS1="\[\e[44m\][\u@\h \[\e[45m\]\w\[\e[44m]\]\$\[\e[0m\] " There's a lot of confusing-to-read escaping in there, because the square brackets have different meanings and are part of the ANSI colour codes, as well as where you see them just typed as brackets in the prompt. The ones that are just typed to show up as [ and ] around the prompt prefix are the [ before \u and the \] just before \$ -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
