Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 14:18:30 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Duke Normandin <dnormandin@freewwweb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sh prompt Message-ID: <20000528141830.C15565@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <001601bfc85d$9b60f680$1fdba7d1@odie> References: <001601bfc85d$9b60f680$1fdba7d1@odie>
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On Saturday, 27 May 2000 at 22:30:43 -0600, Duke Normandin wrote:
> I have the following prompt in ~/.shrc:
>
> PS1="[$(tty | cut -c9-11)]:`whoami`.`hostname | sed 's/\..*//'`@"`pwd`
> case `id -u` in
> 0) PS1="${PS1}# ";;
> *) PS1="${PS1}$ ";;
> esac
>
> I want to introduce a ^J or \n in the "case" so that my prompt
> looks like:
>
> blah blah
> $
>
> Anybody know how to get this to happen? Tia....
Just put the \n character in the prompt.
PS1="${PS1}#
";;
You'll presumably use your favourite editor.
Greg
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