colorisation and aliasing

[chris@dds.nl]

Hi all,

I think I have a few more or less difficult ones. A friend of mine,
using csh has a very nice PS1 prompt, something like

[chris@debian /var]

now, nothing special, but the chris is coloured red and debian is
coloured yellow.

Is it possible to do the same in bash?

secondly he has made a nice cd alias, which after cd-ing ls-es. (?? ;-)

I tried some options, but when I make an alias or script (!) it doesn't
 work, for I get the following output:

	[chris@debian chris]$ pwd
	/home/chris

	[chris@debian chris]$ alias cd='cd $1;ls'

	[chris@debian chris]$ cd ..
	chris       chrisold    ftp         lost+found
	# as you can see it jumps to the higher directory

	[chris@debian chris]$ pwd
	/home/chris
	#but jumps back in the end

while the following holds as well:
 
	[chris@debian chris]$ pwd
	/home/chris

	[chris@debian chris]$ alias cd='cd $1'

	[chris@debian chris]$ cd ..

	[chris@debian /home]$ pwd
	/home

By the way, to make a larger history file, add the following to
~/.bash_profile:

	export HISTSIZE='1000'

-- 
With regards,

C. van Kesteren



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