Terminal Configuration

[geffers]

Hi Folks,

Relatively new user to MX Linux

On the terminal one gets the PWD then $ prompt on next line. Certainly not a major issue but I would like the prompt on the same line as my PWD.

Looked through the .bashrc file and can't find anything obvious, if I temporarily rename the .bashrc file then the terminal shows PWD and prompt on same line but if I restore the .bashrc file then again in is on following line.

Appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction for this, understand bash scripts but not functions and variables too well.

Geoff

[dolphin_oracle]

in this area of ~/.bashrc,

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if [ "$UID" = 0 ]; then
    PS1="$red\u$nc@$red\H$nc:$CYAN\w$nc\\n$red#$nc "
else
    PS1="$PURPLE\u$nc@$CYAN\H$nc:$GREEN\w$nc\\n$GREEN\$$nc "
fi

remove the \\n from in front of the $GREEN\$$nc. \n is a new line, and the first slash is an escape character so the \n gets processed as a new line instead of a text character.

[geffers]

dolphin_oracle That was a quick reply.

Thank you, didn't think to look at the code that included colour but as mentioned, understand a little bash scripting but not too much of the functions.

Tried it, works fine.

Thanks you again for prompt reply.

Geoff