ssh prompt
When I run a Linux system I tend to have at least 30 terminal windows open. Some of these are logged into the other machines in my house. As of this writing I am logged into laptop1, laptop4, and gabi1 (my girlfriend's laptop running Fedora 20). I found a while back that if the prompt were different on these terminals it was harder for me to get mixed up and type the right command but on the wrong computer. Needless to say that could be a disaster. For a while I would change the prompt manually but that got old very quickly. One day I found almost by accident a really cool solution to this problem. I have used this technique on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, and CentOS and so it should work on your system as well (with maybe a little ...
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