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Re: how to change the prompt in Cygwin


Got it, thanks.

On 1/5/08, Greg Chicares <gchicares@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 2008-01-05 04:26Z, sun wrote:
> >
> > Could you please help on how to remove the path display in my Cygwin?
> > It looks like following and I don't like it:
> >
> > user@mymachien /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Desktop
> > $
> >
> > I want to change to
> >
> > user@mymachien$
>
> Add a line like
>  export PS1='\u$'
> to file '~/.bashrc'. If you want to customize it more, do
>  man bash
> and look for special characters used in PS1.
>
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