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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Two-line prompt using Korn Post 302867143 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 23rd of October 2013 01:55:10 PM
Old 10-23-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by capnpepper
I'm attempting to set up a two-line prompt using Korn.

This is what I've set up in .kshrc

Code:
PS1='$(print -n "`logname`@`hostname`:";if [[ "${PWD#$HOME}" != "$PWD" ]] then; print -n "~${PWD#$HOME}"; else; print -n "$PWD";fi;print "\n$ ")'

And in .profile,
Code:
ENV="$HOME/.kshrc"; export ENV

The hosts that in use are either running RHEL kernel 2.6.8-xx with ksh88 or 2.6.9-xx with ksh93
This works perfectly for most hosts and I get the desired output:

Code:
userx@hosty:~
$ 
userx@hosty:~
$ cd Documents/
userx@hosty:~/Documents
$

But on some hosts I get this error when I login:

Code:
-ksh: syntax error: `;' unexpected
$(print -n "`logname`@`hostname`:";if [[ "${PWD#$HOME}" 1074 "$PWD" ]] then; pr
int -n "~${PWD#$HOME}"; else; print -n "$PWD";fi;print "\n$ ")

I also noticed that != changes to a number (1074 in this example) and increases by 1 if I hit Enter.

I'm using the same syntax on all hosts and cannot figure out this error.
My guess is the difference in the ksh version.

Please help me figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Also, is there a way to force ksh to behave consistently across older versions?
Did you also notice the line break in the middle of print shown in red above?

Are you sure that .kshrc has the same contents on both systems?
 

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scdscreate(1HA) 					       Sun Cluster Commands						   scdscreate(1HA)

NAME
scdscreate - create a Sun Cluster resource type template SYNOPSIS
scdscreate -V vendor_id -T resource_type_name -a [-s] [-n RT_version] [-d working_directory] [-k | -g] DESCRIPTION
The scdscreate command creates a template for making an application highly available (HA) or scalable. This command enables you to create C-, Generic Data Service (GDS)-, or Korn shell-based templates for both network aware (client-server model) and non-network aware (client- less) applications. You can create the template in one of two fundamentally different ways: GDS scdscreate creates a set of three driving scripts that work from a single resource type SUNW.gds, which is pre- installed on the cluster. These scripts are named startRT_Name, stopRT_Name, and removeRT_Name and starts, stops, and removes an instance of that application. In this model, the implementation of the SUNW.gds resource type that is pre-installed on the cluster is immutable. Generated Source Code scdscreate creates a template for a Sun Cluster resource type, whose instantiations run under the control of the Resource Group Manager (RGM) to make the given application highly available and scalable. Either model can create templates for network aware (client-server model) and non-network aware (client-less) applications. scdscreate creates a directory of the form $vendor_id$resource_type_name under working_directory. This directory contains the driving scripts, or the generated source, binary, and package files for the resource type. scdscreate also creates a configuration file, rtconfig, in which you can store configuration information for the resource type. scdscreate allows you to create only one resource type per direc- tory. You must create different resource types in different directories. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -a This parameter specifies that the resource type that is being created is not network aware. scdscreate disables all the networking related code in the template that is created. -n RT_version This optional parameter specifies the version of the generated resource's type. If you omit this parameter, and you're creating a C- or Korn shell-based application, the text string 1.0 is used by default. If you omit this parameter, and you're creating a GDS-based application, the RT_version string of the GDS is used by default. The RT_version distinguishes between multiple registered versions, or upgrades, of the same base resource type. You cannot include the following characters in RT_version: blank, tab, slash (/), backslash (), asterisk (*), question mark (?), comma (,), semicolon (;), left square bracket ([), or right square bracket (]). -d working_directory Creates the template for the resource type in a directory other than the current directory. If you omit this argument, scdscreate creates the template in the current directory. -g This optional parameter generates the GDS-based form of the template to make an application highly available or scalable. -k This optional parameter generates source code in Korn shell command syntax rather than in C. See ksh(1). -s This optional parameter indicates that the resource type is scalable. You can configure an instance (resource) of a scalable resource type into a failover resource group, and hence, turn off the scalability feature. If you omit this argument, scdscreate creates the template for a failover resource type. -T resource_type_name The resource type name and resource type version, in conjunction with the vendor ID, uniquely identifies the resource type that is being created. -V vendor_id The vendor ID is typically the stock symbol, or some other identifier of the vendor that is creating the resource type. scdscreate affixes the vendor ID, followed by a period (.) to the beginning of the resource type name. This syntax ensures that the resource type name remains unique if more than one vendor uses the same resource type name. EXIT STATUS
0 The command completed successfully. nonzero An error occurred. FILES
working_directory/rtconfig Contains information from the previous session and facilitates the quit and restart feature of scdscre- ate. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWscdev | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ksh(1), scdsbuilder(1HA), scdsconfig(1HA), attributes(5), rt_properties(5) Sun Cluster Data Services Developer's Guide for Solaris OS Sun Cluster 3.2 26 May 2004 scdscreate(1HA)
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