Otherwise, how is the shell going to know which quotes are inside the other ones when it processes your command? It just sees one quote... then another one, and it presumes you are closing the quotes.
Alternatively you could use different quotes to delimit the space:
would someone please explain in detail, how does the code below change the color or bash prompt
$ echo $PS1
:\033
are there other tricks like above? (3 Replies)
Hi,
I'm using the ksh shell and I'd like to set my PS1 prompt on an AIX system to include, amongst ther things, the current time.
This was my best effort: export PS1=$(date -u +%R)'${ME}:${PWD}# '
but this only sets the time to the value when PS1 is defined and the time value doesn't... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to find out if there is a way to get a timestamp on my Solaris root shell prompt using /sbin/sh?
I'm trying to archive something in line with the following:
12:34:26 root@server #
12:34:28 root@server #
12:34:28 root@server # ls
...
12:34:30 root@server #
I know there... (1 Reply)
Greetings!
I have to work with a NFS user id between two hosts: A running Ksh 93 and B running pdksh 88.
My problem has to do with the custom prompt I created on A: it works like a charm and display colors:
PS1="$'\E
But I switch over to B, it all goes to hell (private info... (4 Replies)
I am trying to create my custom prompt and I have almost succeeded. Right now I have PS1='\n\\$\ '
What I have not figured out is how to make the directories bold when I'm using commands ls or ls -la.
Any idea how to do it???
Many thanx. (2 Replies)
So, this is strange... I created this prompt:
PS1='\n\e
You can see that it's a pretty minor modification of the default Debian prompt. And, if it matters, I'm using Putty to SSH to my server. The following strange symptoms appear when I use that prompt, and disappear when I change and... (2 Replies)
RedHat Linux 5.8/Korn Shell
I have text file name /etc/oracle/config.loc. It has the following text
#Device/file getting replaced by device +OCR
ocrconfig_loc=+DATA
ocrmirrorconfig_loc=+OCRBut , when I open this file using cat , the PS1 character (for prompt) appears as the last character... (8 Replies)
I have given as:
PS1="Karthick>" in linux.
Now the prompt changed as:
Karthick>
Now I need to get back the default prompt .
How to achieve this?
Thanks in advance (13 Replies)
Hi, I need help changing PS1 in Solaris. I tried this:
MYPROMPT="> "
PS1=$LOGNAME@$HOSTNAME:${PWD}$MYPROMPT (NOT SURE WHY IT'S HIGHLIGHTED HERE)
export PS1
My problem is that $PWD is not working, when I get the prompt and I change directories, the prompt is not displaying the current... (17 Replies)
Discussion started by: curiousmal
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
newkey
NEWKEY(8) BSD System Manager's Manual NEWKEY(8)NAME
newkey -- create a new key in the publickey database
SYNOPSIS
newkey -h hostname
newkey -u username
DESCRIPTION
The newkey utility is normally run by the network administrator on the Network Interface Service (NIS) master machine in order to establish
public keys for users and super-users on the network. These keys are needed for using secure RPC or secure NFS .
The newkey utility will prompt for the login password of the given username and then create a new public/secret key pair in /etc/publickey
encrypted with the login password of the given user.
Use of this program is not required: users may create their own keys using chkey(1).
OPTIONS -h hostname
Create a new public key for the super-user at the given hostname. Prompts for the root password of the given hostname.
-u username
Create a new public key for the given username. Prompts for the NIS password of the given username.
SEE ALSO chkey(1), keylogin(1), publickey(5), keyserv(8)NOTES
The Network Information Service (NIS) was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). The functionality of the two remains the same; only the
name has changed.
BSD October 12, 1987 BSD