How to change the shell prompt to indicate pwd?

[Black Hawk]

I want to change the shell prompt in rxvt from
sh-3.00# to somthing which tells me which directory I'm working in. I've tried putting export PS1="\u@\h:\w\# " in /root/.bashrc, but I coun't get it to work.

Any help is appriciated

Thanks

[Leachim]

It might help to add

-e bash

to "Arguments to pass" in the "Edit Item"-Dialog of your console-icon. Don't ask me, what gets executed if you don't specify this option!

[Black Hawk]

The command itself works, but when I add it to the argument thing, rxvt refuses to start. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[Leachim]

Hmm - which window manager are you using? I use icewm - maybe the settings are different for other window managers ...

My settings for the console icon:

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Clicking the icon opens:

/usr/bin/rxvt

Arguments to pass (for executables):

-e bash

The text displayed under the icon is:

console

I added the -e bash myself. Before I did this my .bashrc wasn't executed, too!

[Dougal]

You should try changing the prompt export in /etc/profile

[brahmy]

You should try changing the prompt export in /etc/profile

I was just searching for this and this is the answer. There is a line in /etc/profile that reads

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PS1="# "

I replaced it with

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# set prompt: ``username@hostname:/directory $ ''
PS1="[\u@\h:\w] " 
case `id -u` in
      0) PS1="${PS1}# ";;
      *) PS1="${PS1}$ ";;
esac

Which I found here. Still not sure if it can tell the difference between root and users, I have to play around with that some more. But from what I've read rxvt is basically bash so all the same commands should work (wrt to prompt).

[Bruce B]

The command itself works, but when I add it to the argument thing, rxvt refuses to start. Does anyone know how to fix this?

In /root/.bashrc add this line, I call the prompt my OS2 prompt.

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PS1="[\w] "

Open /etc/profile make sure that these two lines are NOT commented out.

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SHELL="/bin/bash"                                                              
export SHELL

[willhunt]

here is some great prompt stuff hope it helps
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 512#121512