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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Set prompt, problems and tricks Post 302137768 by HybridLogic on Wednesday 26th of September 2007 08:05:17 PM
Old 09-26-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by reborg
It makes a big differnce whether you are using csh or tcsh.

Please post the output of "echo $0" ( without quotes )
Looks like tcsh. I didn't have a .tcshrc file, but I made one by copying my .cshrc file.

%c[[0]n], %.[[0]n] didn't help much (I just got the current dir followed by all the extra syntax as a static) but the HOWTO: Change your Shell Prompt really helped with that table at the bottom.

%~ seems to be exactly what I wanted. Thanks all.
Last edited by HybridLogic; 09-26-2007 at 09:25 PM..
 

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NAME

       su - run a shell with substitute user and group IDs

SYNOPSIS

       su [OPTION]... [-] [USER [ARG]...]

DESCRIPTION

       Change the effective user id and group id to that of USER.

       -, -l, --login
	      make the shell a login shell

       -c, --commmand=COMMAND
	      pass a single COMMAND to the shell with -c

       -f, --fast
	      pass -f to the shell (for csh or tcsh)

       -m, --preserve-environment
	      do not reset environment variables

       -p     same as -m

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AUTHOR

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