From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 20 11:28:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from picusnet.com (mail.picusnet.com [207.7.90.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E09537B605 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:28:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wdf@picusnet.com) Received: from picusnet.com [209.96.235.139] by picusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id AC2348F00070; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:27:47 -0400 Message-ID: <38FF4C55.3C21A3E3@picusnet.com> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:28:37 -0400 From: "William D. Freeman" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Howard Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /bin/sh question References: <200004201611.MAA01664@rac4.wam.umd.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James Howard wrote: > > I have been a bash addict for many years. This is one of two bad habits I > still have not broken from my days as a Linux admin (please don't tell > anyone!). The other is 'less.' > > However, I have recently noticed that FreeBSD's sh does nearly everything > I need except for one thing. My bash prompt is set to "\u@\h:\w\$ " and > typically my prompt is then shown as "howardjp@byzantine:~$ ". Is there > anyway to get something similar from sh? > > Thanks, J~ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message You could just install the Bourne Again Shell from the Ports collection, although i'd personaly just use TCSH (i used BASH for a while, but i find it alittle sloppy to configure in .bashrc and stuff, although EXPORT is a do-all command) -- William D. Freeman http://members.xoom.com/EvilGNU -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s+:++ a--- C++ UB+++ P+ L- E- W-- N o-- K- w--- O---- M- V- PS--- PE+ Y-- PGP 5-- X+ R tv++ b+ DI++++ D--- G-- e- h! r !y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message