On 04/17/2012 05:46 PM, Darrell Anderson wrote:
> Well, I was going to ask how in jumping blue blazes you stumbled across those typos....
> 
> Yet I'm curious about one of the tips. Does $PS1 actually place the directory in the konsole window title? I thought $PROMPT_COMMAND had to be used to accomplish that (which is what I have used for many years). Is that tip technically correct?
> 
> Darrell

  Your environment has several prompts (up to 6 I think)

PS1 - your main prompt
PS2 - secondary prompt
... and so on. PS1 is simply the environment variable name.

  I've always enjoyed having a useful prompt:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tip-prompt/

  The one I like for keeping me on time is:

PS1='\[\e[0;37m\]\A\[\e[1;34m\] \[\e[1;34m\]\h:\w> \[\e[0m\]'

  I use a variation for 'root'

PS1="\[\e[1;34m\][\[\e[1;31m\]\A \[\e[1;34m\]\h\[\e[0;31m\]:\w\[\e[1;34m\]] #
\[\e[0m\]"

  When you use a prompt that provides hostname/path info, eg:

nirvana:/srv/http/dl/dt/tde>

Then to ftp, sftp, rsync, etc... files between hosts, I just select the prompt
and I've already got the source or destination. I.e.:

rsync -uai nirvana:/srv/http/dl/dt/tde .

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.