On Thursday, November 16, 2017, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:

On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote:

Speaking of which, am I the only one annoyed by Penguin/OS' silly coloured "ls" output? I can never remember how to turn off that frippery, as the contrast is particularly hard on my eyes; the minimalist "F" flag works just fine.

Thanks, all; I'll just knock up a simple script that blows away the entire environment and unaliases everything in sight. I'll probably call it "orca" because I have a warped sense of humour...

Unix taught me to be minimalist; you had to be when writing a bootstrap to fit into 512 bytes...

If you happen to be on Red Hat derived Linux, the easiest way to turn off all this crap is to rename /etc/profile to something like /etc/profile.dist and then populate your own startup scripts.

For a minimalist prompt I just use:

export PS1='\h \$ '

--Andy