just wondering what bash prompts you have set.

i use this:

[user@host ~]:
i.e. [plugged@vertex ~]:

and am very used to it.

I'm just wondering if anyone uses other bash prompts than the defaults,

I have a few friends who use wacky prompts that span 2 lines or more.

I don't use bash, but my csh prompt is "# ".

My workstation (being rebuilt now) was a two line prompt. One line had a timestamp (top) and the other just a simple user@host prompt.

I use csh bash, too.

i use

CYAN="\033[1;36m"
WHITE="\033[1;37m"
GRAY="\033[0;37m"

PS1="\[\033]0;\u@\h:\w\007\]${WHITE}(\@ ${CYAN}\u${WHITE}@\h \w)\n$ ${GRAY}"

comes out as

(01:52am doubleukay@ds-11 ~/public_html)
$

with colors (whee!) and the working directory is shown in securecrt/putty's titlebar ..

[user@hotname date-time currrent directory]
>

BTW the '>' is tcsh :)

PS1='<\u@\h> [\w]\n\$ '; export PS1

results in:

<srh@prime> [~]
$


With commands looking like:

<srh@prime> [~]
$ ls -la /var


=)