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TomyTurbos:
I feel like a total newb asking this...

What I want is my prompt to be as follows:

(user)@(host)[color][maybe date and time here?]
(current-directory)[different-color]
{type-stuff-here[different-color]}  <--this is the cursor behavior.

The newlines are significant.

I'm looking but not finding a succinct answer for how this might be done.
'(current-directory)' should be explicit path name for PWD.

TIA.

TomyTurbos:
Here's an example of what I mean:

foo@bar 25:61 02/30/3147
/home/foo
{cursor}

Rich:
Hi TomyTurbos
Try this in a terminal:

--- Code: ---export PS1='\u@\h:${YELLOW}$(date "+%a %b %d %T") ${RED}$PWD\$${GREEN} '
--- End code ---
Alter the  PS1  variable in your  .profile  file to make it permanent.

Rich:
Hi TomyTurbos
The above example was derived from these threads:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,10429.msg55808.html#msg55808
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,3281.msg17139.html#msg17139

Here's an example that modifies the title bar of a terminal so it dynamically lists the current directory:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,274.msg1657.html#msg1657
and a link from that thread that may be useful:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Xterm-Title.html

TomyTurbos:
Thanks for all that, rich.  I'll get back to you after school...

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