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[volvoguy]

Man Colin, I believe you that it's *supposed* to be there, but it's
not in my .bashrc. This is what mine looks like (and hopefully it
won't get word wrapped to death!).

# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
# for examples

# If running interactively, then:
if [ "$PS1" ]; then

    # don't put duplicate lines in the history. See bash(1) for more options
    # export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups

    # check the window size after each command and, if necessary,
    # update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.
    #shopt -s checkwinsize

    # enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
    if [ "$TERM" != "dumb" ]; then
        eval `dircolors -b`
        alias ls='ls --color=auto'
        #alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'
        #alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long'
    fi

    # some more ls aliases
    #alias ll='ls -l'
    #alias la='ls -A'
    #alias l='ls -CF'

    # A color and a non-color prompt:
    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h \w \$ '
    # Comment in the above and uncomment this below for a color prompt
    #PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h
\[\033[01;34m\]\w \$ \[\033[00m\]'

    # If this is an xterm set the title to user at host:dir
    case $TERM in
    xterm*)
        PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
        ;;
    *)
        ;;
    esac

    # enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable
    # this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc).
    #if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
    #  . /etc/bash_completion
    #fi
fi