Changing my PS1 variable in SSH?

[zgold]

I can't seem to modify the PS1/PLAINPS1 variables that are set in SSH.

Personally, I think this looks awful:

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_[Sonic:/home/z/zgold]_
$ 

and I want to change it to this:

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[zgold@bolt ~]$ 

I attempted to put this into my .bash_profile and .bashrc:

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PS1="[\u@\h \W] $ "
PLAINPS1="[\u@\h \W] $ "

... but it doesn't run upon login.

Any ideas?

[joemuller]

It might be failing because the square brackets aren't escaped with a backslash '\'. Try the following:

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PS1="\[\u@\h: \w\] $ "

[zgold]

It might be failing because the square brackets aren't escaped with a backslash '\'. Try the following:

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PS1="\[\u@\h: \w\] $ "

Nope, that didn't work either.

[joemuller]

I was able to get it to work once with this:

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PS1="[\u@\h \w] $ "

I'm not sure why the PS1 variable is being clobbered, but it's happening to me too!

[zgold]

[joemuller]

With a bit of help, I figured out a way to make it work:

The first thing you'll need to do is remove your .bash_profile:

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rm ~/.bash_profile

Then, we create a symlink to your bashrc file:

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ln -s ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile

Finally, change your line with PS1 to be the following:

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export PS1="[\u@\h \w] $ "

The important part is that the 'export' portion exists. The changes should take effect the next time you log in.

[zgold]

Works! Thank you!