Paths

Rodney Kanno pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com
Tue Sep 4 06:07:54 PDT 2001


Hi Joel,

Wow I never knew you could do so much with one file, great! I shall take a 
look at those websites you recommended and like you suggest, start small and 
grow from there. Thanks for your help.

Thanks,
Rodney

On Tuesday 04 September 2001 02:59 pm, you wrote:
> Rodney,
>
> Sorry for not getting back with you earlier; I was out the door moments
> after sending my last message. Heh... the call of the real life. ;-)
>
> The ~/.bashrc file is quite nifty. It's basically a script that
> automatically runs every time you open a new terminal. You can have some
> pretty incredible things in there, but I think it tends to be a good thing
> to start small, and figure out how to do more stuff as you need it. One
> interesting thing you can do with your .bashrc file is change your command
> prompt:
>
> I never really liked the default Mandrake command prompt. Everything just
> kind of ran together, so I couldn't easily tell where I issued a command.
> So, I put this line in my .bashrc file:
>
> PS1='\n[\u@\h \w]\n$ '
>
> So, every time that I get a command prompt, the computer will print a blank
> line, my user-name, the host-name of the computer I'm on, and the full name
> of my current working directory. Then, it puts in another line and gives me
> a simple $ prompt. The whole thing looks like this:
>
> [joel at river ~/misc/linux/ITEC]
> $
>
> When I log in as the root user on my machine, I want to KNOW it, instantly,
> so I've set up that command prompt basically the same way, only it displays
> in RED, so I can instantly spot it. The command I use is:
>
> PS1="\[\033[1;31m\]\n[\u@\h \w]\n\[\033[1;31m\]\t$ \[\033[0m\]"
>
> There are a lot of other things you can put in to the command prompt,
> including stuff like how many files are in the current directory (or how
> much disk space the directory consumes), information on how much power your
> laptop battery has, and so on. For more information about setting your
> prompt, see http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue64/3215.html and
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/
>
> There's a lot more you can do with the .bashrc file, like setting up
> aliases (short commands that replace or extend existing commands), sending
> an e-mail message to another account (for security), and so on.
>
> --Joel
>
> On Monday 03 September 2001 03:28 am, Rodney Kanno wrote:
> > Joel,
> >
> > K I got it working now..great! What other stuff can be put in the
> > ~/.bashrc file?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rodney
> >
> > On Monday 03 September 2001 03:21 pm, you wrote:
> > > Heh... I should've forseen that one ;-)
> > >
> > > Yes. Setting any variable on the command line will only work for the
> > > terminal you are currently in. It lets you test changes, figure out how
> > > to configure stuff, and so on. To make a permanent change, something
> > > that will automatically be done every time you log on, get a new
> > > terminal, or whatever, just put the line at the end of your ~/.bashrc
> > > file.
> > >
> > > So, for instance, if you're running X and KDE, you'd get to a terminal
> > > window and type:
> > >
> > > kwrite ~/.bashrc
> > >
> > > and at the bottom of the .bashrc file, you'd enter the change:
> > >
> > > PATH=$PATH:/home/rodney/bin/
> > >
> > > Save it, close it, you're set!
> > >
> > > --Joel
> > >
> > > On Monday 03 September 2001 03:08 am, Rodney Kanno wrote:
> > > > Hi Joel
> > > >
> > > > Is PATH=$PATH:/home/rodney/bin/ just a temporary fix? Cause It seems
> > > > to work only in the current terminal session. Once I close out of a
> > > > terminal and come back in, it don't work anymore.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Rodney
> > > >
> > > > On Monday 03 September 2001 02:51 pm, you wrote:
> > > > > If you wanted your /home/rodney/bin directory in your path, enter
> > > > > this at the command line:
> > > > >
> > > > > PATH=$PATH:/home/rodney/bin/
> > > > >
> > > > > The first part of this will keep the existing path, and add
> > > > > /home/rodney/bin at the end.
> > > > >
> > > > > --Joel
> > > > >
> > > > > On Monday 03 September 2001 02:42 am, Rodney Kanno wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > How do I set path statements in Linux Mandrake 8.0? I have a
> > > > > > program within several subdirectories and it is quite a pain to
> > > > > > switch to the directory everytime I want to start the program.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > Rodney
>
> ---
> You are currently subscribed to luau as: pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com
> To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')



More information about the LUAU mailing list