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# sign instead of $ when user terminal

I just did a clean install of Slackware 15, everything went well except I have 2 problems. when in user mode terminal displays a # sign.
I have searched and tried everything I found on web but to no joy.

My second problem is that I cannot get .bashrc to run when in root
to be able to add colors, aliases etc. I assume that one problem solved will probably correct both. but I have not been able to find that solution.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...eply&p=6163004

I found the answer in my own posts from about 18 months ago. getting old is
not always fun!

You can find a lot of .bashrc examples here:

http://dotshare.it/category/shells/bash/

Here's what I use:

Code:

# ~/.bash_profile ######################################################



case $- in

*i* )  # Interactive shell

      if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then

          . ~/.bashrc

      fi

      ;;

esac



########################################################################

Code:

# ~/.bashrc ############################################################



[ -r "$ENV" ]  &&  . "$ENV"

[ -r /etc/bashrc ]  &&  . /etc/bashrc





shopt -s checkwinsize          # Keep track of terminal size



# Aliases:



alias less='less -XFRM'



# Bail out if we're not on a full-feature terminal:

if [ "$TERM" == 'dumb' ]; then

  return 0

fi



# ANSI Terminal control sequences to implement text styles,

# for use in prompts (and/or elsewhere):

declare -A style=(

  [default]=$( tput -S <<< $'sgr0\nop' )

  [prompt]=$( tput -S <<< $'sgr0\nop\nbold' )

  [input]=$( tput -S <<< $'sgr0\nop\nbold\nsetaf 5' )

  [warning]=$( tput -S <<< $'sgr0\nop\nbold\nsetaf 3' )

  [error]=$( tput -S <<< $'sgr0\nop\nbold\nsetaf 1' )

)



# Bash prompts:

#  'trap' ensures we clean up after ourselves on exit.

trap "tput -S <<< $'sgr0\nop'" EXIT

PS1=\\[${style[prompt]}\\]\\$\ \\[${style[input]}\\]

PS2=\\[${style[prompt]}\\]\>\ \\[${style[input]}\\]

PS0=${style[default]}



########################################################################

Quote:

Originally Posted by zrdc28 (Post 6328230)

That sounds like you are logging in as root user. Is it safe to assume you have created a non-root user and are logging in with that user? The # symbol indicates a root terminal, usually. Forgive me if this is too obvious and you have already ruled that out.

PS1=$ will display a '$'
PS1=\$ will also display a '$'
PS1=\\$ will display a '$' for non-root and a '#' for root.

And if that \\$ is followed by a word that could be interpreted as a shell variable, you need to do: PS1=\\\$word

Also, whether or not you use single or double quotes or not can confuse matters.

When setting PS1, you need to get the shell-escaping right in order to get the desired result.

you can find good pages on the net regarding PS1, like this: https://bashrcgenerator.com/

For what its worth here is my .bashrc:

Code:

FILES=~/.config/bash/*



for f in $FILES; do

    source $f

done

Code:

$ls ~/.config/bash/



aliases  bashPrompt  colouredMan  dirColors  functions

Code:

$cat bashPrompt



#!/bin/bash



# Test to see what terminal we have and change the prompt accordingly

if [ $TERM == linux ]; then

        if [[ $(id -u) == 0 ]]; then

                export PS1="[\[\e[31m\]\u\[\e[m\]]-[\[\e[32m\]\w\[\e[m\]] \n\[$(tput sgr0)\][\[\e[36m\]\A\[\e[m\]]--> "

        else

                export PS1="[\[\e[1;34m\]\u\[\e[m\]]-[\[\e[32m\]\w\[\e[m\]] \n\[$(tput sgr0)\][\[\e[36m\]\A\[\e[m\]]--> "

        fi

else

        compile_prompt () {

          local EXIT=$?

          local CONNECTBAR_DOWN=$'\u250C\u2500\u257C'

          local CONNECTBAR_UP=$'\u2514\u2500\u257C'

          local SPLITBAR=$'\u257E\u2500\u257C'

          local ARROW=$'\u25B6'

          local c_gray='\e[01;30m'

          local c_blue='\e[0;34m'

          local c_cyan='\e[0;36m'

          local c_reset='\e[0m'

          # If root change color of prompt

          if [[ $(id -u) == 0 ]] 

          then

                  local c_blue='\e[0;31m'

                  local c_gray='\e[00;30m'

          fi

        

          # > Connectbar Down

          # Format:

          #  (newline)(bright colors)(connectbar down)

          PS1="\n${c_gray}"

          PS1+="$CONNECTBAR_DOWN"

        

          # > Username

          # Format:

          #  (bracket open)(username)(bracket close)(splitbar)

          PS1+="[${c_blue}\u${c_gray}]"

          PS1+="$SPLITBAR"

        

          # > Jobs

          # Format:

          #  (bracket open)(jobs)(bracket close)(splitbar)

          PS1+="[${c_blue}\j${c_gray}]"

        

          # > Exit Status

          # Format:

          #  (bracket open)(last exit status)(bracket close)(splitbar)

          PS1+="[${c_blue}${EXIT}${c_gray}]"

          PS1+="$SPLITBAR"

        

          # > Time

          # Format:

          #  (bracket open)(time)(bracket close)(newline)(connectbar up)

          PS1+="[${c_blue}\D{%H:%M:%S}${c_gray}]\n"

          PS1+="$CONNECTBAR_UP"

        

          # > Working Directory

          # Format:

          #  (bracket open)(working directory)(bracket close)(newline)

          PS1+="[${c_blue}\w${c_gray}]\n"

        

          # > Arrow

          # NOTE: Color must be escaped with '\[\]' to fix the text overflow bug!

          # Format:

          #  (arrow)(color reset)

          PS1+="$ARROW \[\e[0m\]"

        }

        

        PROMPT_COMMAND='compile_prompt'

fi

The xterm prompt was lifted from the nord color theme, with some changes.

The chances are you do not want to do it the way that I have

You didn't, on the off chance, make your user UID 0 did you? (i.e. that is allowed so you can have multiple root accounts by doing that)

That would cause your prompt to show #