Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 06:40:43 -0600 From: "Duke Normandin" <dnormandin@freewwweb.com> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sh prompt Message-ID: <003f01bfc8aa$4439d6e0$61dba7d1@odie>
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On Saturday, May 27, 2000 10:49 PM Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
>On Saturday, 27 May 2000 at 22:30:43 -0600, Duke Normandin wrote:
>> I have the following prompt in ~/.shrc:
>>
>> PS1="[$(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.
sheesh.......... I tried what I thought was every permutation &
combination, except doing what *I think* you're suggesting, i.e.
actually typing in the CRLF. Thanks!!
-duke
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