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Sqerstet
Asked: 2018-11-29 08:38:28 +0800 CST

Cannot export PS1 over SSH

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Trying to customize shell prompt on a Ubuntu 18 LTS server over SSH.

On the server, the .profile sources .bashrc correctly, and .bashrc has force_color_prompt=yes uncommented. The prompt is not colored.

Tried setting it manually. It does not export:

user@ubuntu ~ $ export PS1="[ ${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u is awesome: \w ]\\$ "
user@ubuntu ~ $ echo $PS1
\u@\h \w \$

But as root it works fine:

user@ubuntu ~ $ sudo su
root@ubuntu:/home/user# export PS1="[ ${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u is awesome: \w ]\\$ "
[ root is awesome: /home/user ]#

What is going on?

ssh bash bashrc prompt

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Checked $PROMPT_COMMAND as advised by @terdon:

    user@ubuntu ~ $ echo $PROMPT_COMMAND
__git_ps1 "\u@\h \w" "$(__drush_ps1 "[%s]") \\\$ "

    Then looked harder at .bashrc and found:

    # Include Drush prompt customizations.
if [ -f "/home/user/.drush/drush.prompt.sh" ] ; then
    source /home/user/.drush/drush.prompt.sh
fi

    Drush was setting its own $PROMPT_COMMAND, apparently instead of PS1. Not sure how PS1 gets overwritten by this, but it does. Commenting out Drush's superfluous customization makes the problem go away. Thanks to @terdon.

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