On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 chris@dds.nl wrote: > [chris@debian /var] > now, nothing special, but the chris is coloured red and debian is > Is it possible to do the same in bash? Try this: export PS1='[\e[01;31mcris\e[0m@\e[01;33mdebian\e[0m \w] ' Regards, Fernando Sánchez - European Universities' Linux User Groups -- Help list http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/eulug/