Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:32:12 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Dan <longterm@pdx.chatusa.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freeBSD How to you set the prompt Message-ID: <20040729143212.GB28698@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <000801c47570$25df3ab0$ca2aeecd@dannewxp> References: <000801c47570$25df3ab0$ca2aeecd@dannewxp>
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On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 01:29:30PM -0000, Dan wrote:
> Where and how do you set the prompt to show what user name that your on=
IE ROOT or user johndoe.
> Eample of what the end results I would like to see.
>=20
> # router1.pdx/chatusa.com user johndoe.
Depends on what shell you're using. Assuming that you meant to type
'router1.pdx.chatusa.com' as the fully qualified hostname, then for
tcsh(1):
set prompt=3D"# %M user %n "
For bash(1):
PS1=3D"# \H user \u "
For zsh(1):
prompt=3D"# %M user %n "
For sh(1), which doesn't have any sort of escape character support for
its prompts, you'ld have to do something like:
PS1=3D"# $(hostname) user $(id -un)"
which just uses the regular string substition features supplied by the
shell. [The difference is immaterial here, but if you wanted, say, to
display the current working directory in your shell prompt, the
%-escape or \-escape style would do it without any fuss. The sh(1)
style means you'ld have to arrange to reset the prompt each time you
changed directory.]
Cheers,
Matthew
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