Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:09:54 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CSH Shell Message-ID: <200010182109.e9IL9sK11631@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:59:47 -0000." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010171257460.12552-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
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> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:59:47 +0000 (GMT) > From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > Taking my first steps into scripting, my first task is to figure > out how to customize csh. Problem is, I can't seem to make something like > set prompt="'hostname' %" work... The command hostname dosen't seem to > work at all. I figure I've got the syntax wrong, but where... ? :) What I > get is 'hostname' btw. Thanks much! Fist, change the single quotes around 'hostname' to back ticks. Second, if you are running FreeBSD-4.1 or newer you are actually running tcsh and you can do it better with: set prompt="%m%% " There are several prompt setting shortcuts. See man csh for all the details. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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