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:
But I switch over to B, it all goes to hell (private info removed). The prompt fails to display colors like host A ; instead, the color codes are displayed "in clear".
The prompt on host B is not displaying colors like host A so I want B to display a basic prompt instead. To get around the problem, I edited my .kshrc file to add this code at the end
The case statement does not work: PS1 does not switch to `PS1="[`logname`@`uname -n`]>"`.
would someone please explain in detail, how does the code below change the color or bash prompt
$ echo $PS1
:\033
are there other tricks like above? (3 Replies)
please advise what's wrong with this command ?
PS1="`hostname`:`who am i | cut -d " " -f1`:>>"
trying to make the PS1 prompt look like :
machine_name:username:>>
thank you (4 Replies)
Hi,
I'm using the ksh shell and I'd like to set my PS1 prompt on an AIX system to include, amongst ther things, the current time.
This was my best effort: export PS1=$(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)
I am looking to create some ksh93 extensions using the custom builtin feature.
I can successfully create a builtin function, load it using the builtin -f command and get an output. However, I want to get/set values of KSH variables from within my built-in.
For example, lets say I am creating... (2 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)
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 DEBIAN
xtell
XTELL(1) General Commands Manual XTELL(1)NAME
xtell - sends a message to another computer running xtelld
SYNOPSIS
xtell [-v] [user[:tty][@host[:port]]] [message]
write user [tty]
DESCRIPTION
How to use it: suppose you want to send a message to user gubas on computer trener.fsport.uniba.sk Just type:
prompt:~% xtell gubas@trener.fsport.uniba.sk Hi
To send multiple lines long message to user 7tokarova at computer pascal.fmph.uniba.sk, type
prompt:~% xtell 7tokarova@pascal.fmph.uniba.sk
Hi
How are you today
Please answer
^D
in this case, finish sending messages with EOF (CTRL D)
If you want to send message to user holik on local computer, you can do it either by typing:
prompt:~% xtell holik@localhost Hi
or simply:
prompt:~% xtell holik Hi
To send message to certain tty, append the tty to username, separated by colon:
prompt:~% xtell stanys:ttyp2@reaktor.ip.fmph.uniba.sk 'Sveikas Tomai'
will send message 'Sveikas Tomai' to user stanys on ttyp2 at computer reaktor.ip.fmph.uniba.sk
To specify other port than the default 4224, append the port to computer name, separated by colon:
prompt:~% xtell bosa@radon.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk:4000 'Ahoj'
assumes the xtell daemon runs at computer radon on port 4000, and sends the message 'Ahoj' to user bosa.
Option -v turns verbose mode on. Xtell will then display some messgaes about connecting, which is usefull especially when the connection is
slow.
Example:
prompt:~% xtell -v rybar@dmpc.dbp.fmph.uniba.sk
xtell invoked without parameters will ask user for username and host to send the message to.
If the user has created in his/her/its home directory the file .xtell-log, and the file is writable by nobody, all messages will be written
to this file as well as to the screen (handy when the screen is overwritten and you could not see the message).
xtell checks the environmental variable XTELLPROMPT. If it exists, it is used as prompt for messages.
Last notice: if you do not think zsh is the best shell, (besides doing a mistake) replace prompt:~% in above text with prompt:~$ or what-
ever :-)
AUTHOR
Radovan Garabik (garabik@melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk)
SEE ALSO xtelld(8), write(1), talk(1), talkd(8), tty(1)BUGS
What happens to .xtell-log when two messages arrive simultaneously? There is no locking implemented.
XTELL(1)