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Hannes_Rapp
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Aug 30, 2016

How to customize command line prompt?

Well aware of the $PS1 variable of the BASH shell, but what variable or configuration file controls the prompt of TMSH? I would like to make the command prompt of TMSH a bit slimmer - eliminate c...
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Hannes_Rapp
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Thx to @Jason Rahm and @Mark Crosland.

Here's the answer if anyone else got the same question:

tmsh help cli preference, there is a limited amount of stuff to choose from, no shell out to bash for random commands or similar.

root@(d3)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) mod cli preference prompt { 
Options:
  }                     
Values:
  avc-count              fully-qualified-host   mcp-state              user                   
  config-sync-status     host                   multi-line             user-role             
  current-folder         mcp-load-status        status
root@(d3)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) mod cli preference prompt { avc-count host … }
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Georgi__Joe__St
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Aug 17, 2017

Thank you :), you saved me from digging in docs 🙂

I am using this one, hostname is replaced by FQDN and multy-line:

modify cli preference prompt { user fully-qualified-host config-sync-status status current-folder multi-line }