I have a .bashrc file with the following commands:
PS1="..."
export LC_ALL=...
What are these commands doing?
I have a .bashrc file with the following commands: PS1=… export LC_ALL=… What are
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I have a .bashrc file with the following commands:
PS1="..."
export LC_ALL=...
What are these commands doing?
The first one sets the way your prompt looks (see my own post on pimping my prompt). In the case of the example you gave, it will cause your hostname, followed by a colon, followed by the current path to appear in the prompt. The second one sets the default language/localization settings to use the POSIX C configuration, rather than whatever the settings previously were. I strongly recommend changing the value from “C” to some variation of “utf-8” depending on your language, in order to support Unicode. Ex: