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fahrenheit

When connecting to the RetroPie through SSH, it shows a Message of the Day (MOTD) banner with statistics:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 30G 5.0G 23G 18% /
Uptime.............: 0 days, 01h24m47s
Memory.............: 577524kB (Free) / 752876kB (Total)
Running Processes..: 117
IP Address.........: X.X.X.X
Temperature........: CPU: 41°C/105°F GPU: 41°C/105°F

How can this be edited? I've looked in a few traditional locations:

/etc/motd
/etc/issues
/etc/issues.net

Also looked in crontab to see if there was a script that runs to update this. I can't seem to find anything. I'd like to see about adding additional location like number of ROMs found. Thanks!

meleu

@fahrenheit this is the retropie_welcome. Look at $HOME/.bashrc.

;-)

fahrenheit

Excellent, that's it! Thanks!

fahrenheit

In case anyone is interested, I added additional code to the .bashrc script that lists the number of ROMs available for each platform. It's a little manual; you have to edit the code to look into each rom folder. However, now I ssh in and can see how many ROMS exist.

I modified ~/.bashrc from:

        $(tput setaf 7) The RetroPie Project, https://retropie.org.uk
        
        $(tput sgr0)"
        }
             
        retropie_welcome
             
        # RETROPIE PROFILE END

To (updated):

        $(tput setaf 7) The RetroPie Project, https://retropie.org.uk
        $(tput setaf 1)ROMS:
        Sega.....: $(ls /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mastersystem/*.{sms,sg} | wc -l)
        NES......: $(ls /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/nes/*.{nes,unf} | wc -l)
        Genesis..: $(ls /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/genesis/*.bin | wc -l)
        SNES.....: $(ls /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes/*.{smc,fig} | wc -l)
        NeoGeo...: $(ls /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/fba/*.{zip,fs} | wc -l)
        $(tput sgr0)"
        }
        
        retropie_welcome
        
        # RETROPIE PROFILE END

I'm sure someone knows of a better way to do this programmatically, but this meets my needs.
http://he1t.net/support/retropie_ssh_roms.png

meleu

@fahrenheit
you can give several arguments to the ls.
Is there a reason to use those "&&" conditionals?

fahrenheit

I wasn't sure how to list multiple types of file extensions. Looks like it can be accomplished with:

               ls /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mastersystem/*.{sms,sg} | wc -l

Cool, I'll change that...thanks again!