dot bash_profile for root user

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Good evening everybody,

I like to have my prompt like that : [user@box1:/home/user]$
Therefore I had the line below in the .bash_profile file:

PS1="[$LOGNAME@`hostname`:\$PWD]\$"

Now I would like to have something like that when I log as root : [root@box1:/root]#

and adding PS1="[$LOGNAME@`hostname`:\$PWD]\#" is definitely not working...

Any idea how to do that?

Many thanks for your help!

2

How do you log in to root? sudo -i should execute your profiles

Also, I'd use PS1='[\u@\h \w]\$ '

is bash the shell for root?

3

I log with

su -

It is definitely a bash shell as the line

PS1="[$LOGNAME@`hostname`:\$PWD]\$"

added in the file .bash_profile in /root makes the change when I log as root.

Now If I add

PS1="[$LOGNAME@`hostname`:\$PWD]\#"

in bash_profile of root, then when I log as root it starts to show something like that :

[root@box1/root]1

if I hit enter it counts:

[root@box1/root]2

[root@box1/root]3

etc...
Anyone has a clue what's going on?
Many thanks,

4

yes. the "#" doesn't need escaped. bash prompts have different meanings for escaped sequence. \# actually means "Command number" :slight_smile:
\$ will turn into $ for user and # for root. So the ideal solution is to use PS1='[\u@\h:\w]\$ ' [/FONT]

5

Many thanks

 PS1="[$LOGNAME@`hostname`:\$PWD]#"

works fine!
For info :

 PS1="[$LOGNAME@`hostname`:\$PWD]\$"

Shows something like that:
[root@box1/root]$
even as root.

Thanks again for your help!!!