Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 05:59:35 -0600 From: " Vodyanoi" <hawk76@mail.ev1.net> To: "FreeBSD Mail List -- Houston" <hou-freebsd@cityscope.net>, "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Prompt and Path questions Message-ID: <200003290559.AA228787102@mail.ev1.net>
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Hello all,
I appear to have a small issue with the setup of both my path and prompt settings. I am using sh for my shell. I have edited the prompt setting in the .shrc file in the home dir but it didn't work quite the way I expected it to. below is what I have in this file. what I had before was the same, I only added the "| `pwd'#" & $ sections.
PS1="`whoami`@`hostname | sed 's/\..*//'`"
case `id -u` in
0) PS1="${PS1}|`pwd`# ";;
*) PS1="${PS1}|`pwd`$ ";;
esac
This gives the the prompt that I want (username@host|<current path>$) but it dosn't change when I change paths. I searched the archives for the mailing list and found somethig about using CD insteadof PS1 but not sure what CD is or how to set that up.
Also I seem to be having a problem with some commands that are located in my /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin not running. I get the error message command not found and have to enter the full path with the command. I've checked and these paths are in my path setting. this happens mainly with programs that I've installed and not with the commands and programs that install orignally.
If someone could explain this to me or point me to the documentation about this that I've been missing. i am sure it's out there somewhere I just can't seem to find it
Thanks,
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