Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 08:33:52 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Good <tomg@nrnet.org> To: Markus <mennis@ucsd.edu> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: prompt2 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981208082110.6865B-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org> In-Reply-To: <19981208151654.S12688@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Monday, 7 December 1998 at 20:41:44 +0000, Markus wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've searched hi and low but cannot find any info regarding the prompt
> > shell variable. I've been attempting to set my prompt as the current
> > working directory such as:
> >
> > /usr/home/marke>%
> >
> > and have it change when the directory is changed. I was going to do an
> > alias for cd and maybe change the prompt variable or use the second
> > prompt variable if I knew how to print it as well but couldn't find the
> > cd executable, I believe it's a system call???,
>
> No, it's not a system call.
>
> > and couldn't find info on prompt2. Do you know how to do this??
>
> It depends on your shell, which you haven't mentioned. Take a look at
> the man page for your shell.
Hi Markus,
I like a slackware style prompt so I borrowed Patrick's syntax from
/etc/profile and stuck it in my .profile. This works for bash...for
other logins that invoke bash as a subshell I put it in my .bashrc.
PS1='`hostname -s`:`pwd`$ '
Looks like you need simply: PS1='`pwd`>%' or something similar.
For the ksh, I use: PS1='my_box:$PWD$ ' where my_box is the output from
hostname...
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BTW, I notice a striking similarity between the FreeBSD and Slackware
setup programs (both written in dialog for starters)... ;-)
Cheers,
Tom
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