Hi, I adapted my old .bashrc, that has been with me many years, to work on my N900.



You can copy it to all your users/root home folders (and to /etc/skel for all future ones) and it will automatically display "root" in the color you define. Bad root.

Features

• Fully portable (runs unmodified on all my machines/users)
• Two-lines stable, consistent display
• Double-clickable full path
• Simple and light load-meter
• Visual status of the latest command output
• Command history available across all new shells
• SSH & screen friendly
• Cool aliases & functions

Installation
as root :

• apt-get install bash wget
• cd
• wget -N "http://talk.maemo.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=22166" -O .bashrc
• cp .bashrc /home/user/
• bash

Optional :
apt-get install coreutils-gnu (if you want colored ls)

Optionally, you may want to edit /etc/passwd to change "/bin/sh" to /bin/bash" where applicable.
Any enhancements requests and bug-reports welcome.

Notes
The xterm system on Maemo is tricky. X Terminal launches xterm who launches busybox who then launchs ash (o_O) Look at how I implemented it (both from desktop and ssh) and feel free to suggest a better way : Right now it handles ssh nicely, but strangely, when used in hildon X-Terminal I have to manually enter "bash" each time... Any thought?

(The attachment has a low viewcount because I upload new tweaks, and it keeps resetting..?)

Changelog
Removed bc dependency
Better handling of old (<3) BASHes

Thank you for your encouragements

Sweet, but what version do you have? I'm running bash 2.05b at the moment... :P (I know, but it's the only I found to show username and hostname...)
I will try this out.

Keep in mind busybox-power can provide ls colors too, so it'd be great if you adapted your dependencies accordingly.

where i can change the color of background and color of text ?

Well it's not a dependency per se, just a way to have colored ls. Besides, I figured if one really wants to use busybox(-xx) "ls", why would one bother with a .bashrc..?

As for the only other one dependency (apart from BASH itself), "bc", I found a way to round floating to integers on old BASHs, so I removed it, so this compatible with ALL BASH VERSIONS.

I wanted to test busybox-power but had second thoughs. I prefer not to touch it (specially since it overwrites it !) and go with the "core package untouched, additional package for power-users" approach... And I'm not proficient enough on embedded platforms to replace core components like this.

You seem to know your way around busybox, do you know why I keep ending in ash, having to manually enter "bash" at each login (user AND root) even though I set /etc/passwd to /bin/bash ?
When I create another test user (w/ same /etc/passwd shell field) and copy the .bashrc to it, everything is fine, I can, from root, "su test" and I'm in BASH right away.
But when do the same for "user", I end up in ash, and have to enter "bash" :/ do you know why ?

? All versions of BASH take escape sequences for displaying those infos in the prompt. Try
In your X-term's prefs.