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

Personally, I think this looks awful: and I want to change it to this: I attempted to put this into my .bash_profile and .bashrc: ... but it doesn't run upon login.

Any ideas?

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

joemuller wrote: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.

I was able to get it to work once with this: I'm not sure why the PS1 variable is being clobbered, but it's happening to me too!

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: Then, we create a symlink to your bashrc file: Finally, change your line with PS1 to be the following: The important part is that the 'export' portion exists. The changes should take effect the next time you log in.

Works! Thank you!