Posted by Taoufix on Apr 1st, 2008 in Computers
Here is a funny trick to mess up with someone’s bash prompt: change it to look like a Windows one :)
To do so, add the following line to his ~/.bashrc file:
[shell]export PS1=’C:${PWD//\//\\\}>’[/shell]
See it in action:
mozey
LOOOOOOOOOOL, sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet!.
Jul 1st
Dirty rughead this does not equal to a DOS prompt. I will promptly kick you in the nuts if you don’t give LUNIX the repsect it deserves!
I am coming to kick you!
Jul 1st
Beta
@ibod: LUNIX? And wow…go take your prozak.
Jul 1st
agootaC dobI
Notice the fact that it is an “April fools joke”?
Jul 1st
Very Nice! I have always enjoyed playing with my .bashrc but never thought to make it look windows like! Thanks!~
Jul 4th
looooooooooooool
Jul 8th
Shame I use zsh then :P, but yeah, now if only I could do it on every account on this terminal server here…
Dec 11th
Mike
I’m curious about the ${PWD//\//\\\} portion. I know ${PWD} lets you smoosh the output of PWD into the string, but what’s up with the escapes?
Dec 11th
Mike
I’m curious about the ${PWD//\//\\\} portion. I know ${PWD} lets you smoosh the output of PWD into the string, but what’s up with the escapes?
Dec 11th
@Mike: It’s to replace “/” (Linux paths) with “\” (Windows paths).
Sep 21st
peter
How do you undo it? I dont wanna ruin my LUNIX system.
Feb 10th
Jabba Laci
@peter: cat >> ~/.bashrc added the “export PS1=…” line to the end of your ~/.bashrc file. To undo this, just open ~/.bashrc with your favorite text editor and remove the “export PS1=…” line, or put that line to comment by adding the ‘#’ sign to the beginning of the line.
Feb 10th
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