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Commander Ryker · Mar 17, 2009, 10:09 PM // 22:09

I'm hoping you geniuses can help me, I've looked online, in my text book and my notes and can't find it anywhere. Here's what I need to do, set my Linux (cygwin) prompt to be my name followed by a ‘>’ and the bell/keyboard sound with each prompt. And the dos is almost the same, set the DOS prompt to be my name followed by the current date and a ‘>’.

If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it.

ne33us · Mar 17, 2009, 11:00 PM // 23:00

for DOS
prompt /? will give you your available options.
In your case you should write something like, prompt your_name$D$G

for linux, in my /etc/skel/.bashrc there is the following directive

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'

but that's as far as I can help.

About the "bell" sounds, I have no clues in either case.

Commander Ryker · Mar 17, 2009, 11:46 PM // 23:46

Woot! The dos thing worked. Thank you.

Now for the damn linux.......grr. I put in exactly what you had and nothing. Here's a copy of it.

$ PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'

[email protected] ~
$

ne33us · Mar 18, 2009, 02:11 PM // 14:11

Nevermind about the PROMPT_COMMAND thing.
try this instead

PS1='\a\d my_name_here>'

\a is for the bell
\d is for the date

use man bash to read more about the prompt (or man sh or whichever shell you use)

Commander Ryker · Mar 18, 2009, 06:40 PM // 18:40

That worked! Thank you so much. You totally rock!!