Hi, thanks for your answer. I found that what I have set works but when I logging through X-Window session; however it does not work if I go through an X-term or Term session. What is the difference. Thanks Edward On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 13:12, Scott Taylor wrote: > Scott Taylor said: > > > > Edward Parrilla said: > >> > >> PS1="{${HOSTNAME}"':${PWD}}' > >> export PS1 > > > > Try: > > > > man bash > > Look for PROMPTING > /PROMTING > > > I get: > > PS1="\h:\W " > > Sorry, that should be lower case 'W' "\h:\w " to get a full PWD with ~/ to > represent your home directory, but it gets very long that way. > > -- > Scott > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html