Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 09:47:31 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: (Christian Weisgerber) <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sh prompt Message-ID: <20000528134732.CURV22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <8gqsgm$311u$1@bigeye.mips.inka.de>
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On 28-May-00 Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Duke Normandin <dnormandin@freewwweb.com> wrote: > >> I have the following prompt in ~/.shrc: >> >> PS1="[$(tty | cut -c9-11)]:`whoami`.`hostname | sed 's/\..*//'`@"`pwd` You can get the prompt you want rather easily in tcsh using the following: set prompt='[%l]:%n.%m@%~\n%# ' set promptchats='$#' [ttyp6]:john.john@/usr/local $ cd [ttyp6]:john.john@~ $ > Basically, what you are trying to do is beyond the capabilities of > sh. Agreed, sh is more of a scripting shell than an interactive shell, but that is a matter of heavy personal opinion. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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