I am trying to set PS1
so that it prints out something just right after login, but preceded with a newline later.
Suppose export PS1="\h:\W \u\$ "
, so first time (i.e., right after login) you get:
hostname:~ username$
I’ve been trying something like in my ~/.bashrc
:
function __ps1_newline_login {
if [[ -n "${PS1_NEWLINE_LOGIN-}" ]]; then
PS1_NEWLINE_LOGIN=true
else
printf '\n'
fi
}
export PS1="\$(__ps1_newline_login)\h:\W \u\$ “
expecting to get:
# <empty line>
hostname:~ username$
A complete example from the the beginning would be:
hostname:~ username$ ls `# notice: no empty line desired above!`
Desktop Documents
hostname:~ username$