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 Message 356 
 Ben Ritchey to Paul Quinn 
 Re: Bash prompt 
 26 May 16 18:39:48 
 
* An ongoing debate between Paul Quinn and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

 BR>> I'm using:

 PQ> That's getting messy, quoting & re-quoting.  :)  It was a bit gaudy
 PQ> In any case, thanks but no thanks.

lol yup, gawdy for me, too, but I use mc which doesn't show the colors on the
command line so I didn't bother changing it! Basically it's just :

export PS1="\t \u@\h \w \$ " ... nice & simple :)

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