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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help setting PS1 prompt to include current time Post 302283669 by gio001 on Tuesday 3rd of February 2009 08:08:35 PM
Old 02-03-2009
Hello,
just a 'stupid' question I am using an older ksh (ksh88) and from there I enter into tcsh .... where should I place this code (and how should it be re-written, too), if I want to have it create env variables .... maybe by including it in .cshrc or some other startup files (.login or other)?
Well all that I was thinking of doing was to be able to have these env vars available by the time one of the alias statement inside my .cshrc executes, in such a way I could use the env var contents and place it onto the title bar of my xterm window. Result being I should then get a clock displayed in the title bar.
Do you have any advice or ideas?
Thanks for all!
 

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tcp-env

tcp-env(1)                                                    General Commands Manual                                                   tcp-env(1)

NAME

       tcp-env - set up TCP-related environment variables

SYNOPSIS

       tcp-env [ -rR ] [ -ttimeout ] program [ arg ...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       The  input  for  tcp-env  must be a TCP connection.  tcp-env finds out information about that connection, puts the information into several
       environment variables as described in tcp-environ(5), and runs program with the given arguments.

       Usually tcp-env is run from inetd.  It might instead be run from another server that already sets up the right  environment  variables;  if
       PROTO  is  set  to  TCP  when  tcp-env  is invoked, tcp-env assumes that all the other variables are set up properly, and it does not check
       whether the input is a TCP connection.

OPTIONS

       -r     (Default.)  Attempt to obtain TCPREMOTEINFO from the remote host.

       -R     Do not attempt to obtain TCPREMOTEINFO from the remote host.

       -ttimeout
              Give up on the TCPREMOTEINFO connection attempt after timeout seconds.  Default: 30.

SEE ALSO

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