How to make freebsd's terminal prompt show current directory

Question

My freebsd terminal always only show "#" I want it show current directory. How can I manage that? Thank you indeed!

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 24 '10 at 17:31

2

if using bash shell - in .bash_profile add:

PS1="[\u@\h:\w] " 
case `id -u` in
      0) PS1="${PS1}# ";;
      *) PS1="${PS1}$ ";;
esac

answered Dec 24 '10 at 17:31

jet

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 13 '15 at 00:50

0

In FreeBSD 10.2, \u does not appear to work.

I replaced it with ´whoami´ as in the original prompt. Now it works fine.

PS1="´whoami´@\h:\w" 
case `id -u` in
    0) PS1="${PS1}# ";;
    *) PS1="${PS1}$ ";;
esac

answered Dec 13 '15 at 00:50

Serge Stroobandt

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