[Gllug] Changing the text colour at the command line

[Stig Brautaset]

On Dec 08 2002, Laurie wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> I have playing around with my PS1 and PS2 enviroment variables.
> I have created a more interesting command line prompt, which is
> different for users and root It also means that when I enter commands
> at the command line the commands are in red when it is root and green
> when i'm a user
> I'm quite happy about that and think it looks cool What I have a
> problem with is that when I logout The login prompt is in the colour
> of the last person i.e green text if the last person was a user red
> text if the last person was root
> I want the logging prompt to go back to being white and only change
> colour when I login Is there a text enviroment variable?
> also is there anything like a "unprofile" script which runs when you
> logout?  
> I was thinking I could make a script change the variable when I logout
> or shutdown?

try to put this in your ~/.bash_logout:

PS1=""
PS2=""
export PS1 PS2


Stig
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