On November 12, 2002 12:14 pm, Juan RP wrote: > export PROMPT='`whoami`@`hostname`%~' Here's my favorite (for bash.) export PS1=[${LOGNAME}@`uname -n`:'${PWD#$HOME/}] \$ ' -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@netbsd.org> http://www.NetBSD.org/