Jtdylktuy

Somehow my bash prompt got changed to "elementary:~ steven$" and I want to change it back to the default prompt. I've added the following first to ~/.bashrc then to ~/.profile:

export PS1="s-v$ "

Neither get executed when I open Terminal. If I run the command source on either file it works fine for the remainder of that session.

Is there something I'm overlooking here?

EDIT: Here's output from what Ian suggested:

elementary:~ steven$ bash --login --verbose

# System-wide .profile for sh(1)



if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then

    eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`

fi

/usr/libexec/path_helper -s

PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.2/bin:/usr/local/AVRMacPack/bin"; export PATH;



if [ "${BASH-no}" != "no" ]; then

    [ -r /etc/bashrc ] && . /etc/bashrc

fi

# System-wide .bashrc file for interactive bash(1) shells.

if [ -z "$PS1" ]; then

   return

fi



PS1='h:W u$ '

# Make bash check its window size after a process completes

shopt -s checkwinsize

if [ -e "/usr/local/AVRMacPack" ]; then

PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/AVRMacPack/bin"

export PATH

fi



# Setting PATH for Python 3.2

# The orginal version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave

PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.2/bin:${PATH}"

export PATH

elementary:~ steven$ which bash

which bash

/bin/bash

.bashrc is only executed for non-interactive shells according to the bash man page.

.bash_profile is executed for login shells.

The .profile file is loaded by Korn shells. I don't know that bash pays any attention to this at all. I couldn't find any reference to it in the bash man page.

On OS X the Terminal.app program runs a login shell for every single new Terminal.app window you open.

So you want to put your prompt setup in .bash_profile.

You could always do the following in .bash_profile. It's not uncommon but I can't say what kind of repercussions it could have:

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then

   source ~/.bashrc

fi

Then you wouldn't have to maintain two files.

I might be incorrect but if bash is your shell, you must place that in your ~/.bash_profile and not your .bashrc.

In case you messed with your bash control for any reason and you wanna load your TERMINAL .profile in every session again, just write your ~/.bash_profile like so:

if [ -f ~/.profile ]; then

   source ~/.profile

fi

...and start a new session to check if everything went back OK