in csh I was using:
set prompt=""$HOSTNAME".tk.\!> "
to customize the look of my prompt. I have seen the light after reading the perils of csh scripting and wish to switch to bash. How do I customize my bash prompt??? I've tried many variation of the above w/no success, and searching this... (2 Replies)
I'm trying to use unison from bash on windows with cygwin. I don't know if this is a cygwin question, bash question or unison question. Since I always get reprimanded by the cygwin mailing list for assuming it is a cygwin problem, I'll assume it is a bash question.
The following commands work... (7 Replies)
It looks like,
user@hostname:/auto/home3/user$
Desired,
user@hostname$
I added following line in .bashrc, but still its same.
export PS1=" $ "
Please help me :confused: (13 Replies)
Hi,
Does anyone know any way of making bash prompt extended with conditional content?
Example:
export PS1="] && echo '#' || echo '\$'" # This won't work - prompt is not executed
# export PS1="\$" # This is an existing but also working equivalent
I would like to use more complex... (8 Replies)
I'm using a custom prompt with PS1 in my .profile. It is
PS1="\\u@\e\:\W\ \\$\ \"
and it works well, as you can see,
http://content.screencast.com/users/killer54291/folders/Jing/media/2b3db52a-ebf7-43e2-95cc-f45dadbc2b98/00000023.png
but, when i type more than the width of the window, it... (0 Replies)
This is an instance of "if it's not one thing, it's another."
I recently fell victim to my own stupidity in trashing, by accident, my long-running and very highly-customized .bash_profile and .bashrc files for Cygwin & Cygwin/X. I had backups from a previous "go" with this, and decided to use... (0 Replies)
I am working with a script to simplyfy some operations where I work, but one of the programs needs me to enter a password.
It will as me "Please enter the administrator password:"
Is there a way to make a bash script to automatically answer the question with the needed password?
I am looking... (3 Replies)
I remember there was a gnome only command that we could insert in a bash script to mount a Linux disk that would pop up a little window to grab a password.
I know there are bash commands to read a string but they are not GUIs and they echo the characters typed. This gnome command popped up a... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I'm trying to run a program from the bash prompt and I don't understand why it is returning with an error.
Dig is my C program, and it takes in parameters J4, detect, 3 and 0182F98E
var1="cygdrive/c/2i/test fixture/software/mccdaqtest/debug/Dig J4 detect 3 0182F98E"
when I do
... (6 Replies)
I use the .bashrc file from this thread.
Direct link to the archive containing the ultimate bashrc
I am trying to use autojump, but it will not autoload the directories to the autojump list as the custom prompt is not compatible.
Here is the thread on the issue from other users.
apt -... (2 Replies)
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des_read_2passwords
ui_compat(3) OpenSSL ui_compat(3)NAME
des_read_password, des_read_2passwords, des_read_pw_string, des_read_pw - Compatibility user interface functions
SYNOPSIS
int des_read_password(DES_cblock *key,const char *prompt,int verify);
int des_read_2passwords(DES_cblock *key1,DES_cblock *key2,
const char *prompt,int verify);
int des_read_pw_string(char *buf,int length,const char *prompt,int verify);
int des_read_pw(char *buf,char *buff,int size,const char *prompt,int verify);
DESCRIPTION
The DES library contained a few routines to prompt for passwords. These aren't necessarely dependent on DES, and have therefore become
part of the UI compatibility library.
des_read_pw() writes the string specified by prompt to standard output turns echo off and reads an input string from the terminal. The
string is returned in buf, which must have spac for at least size bytes. If verify is set, the user is asked for the password twice and
unless the two copies match, an error is returned. The second password is stored in buff, which must therefore also be at least size
bytes. A return code of -1 indicates a system error, 1 failure due to use interaction, and 0 is success. All other functions described
here use des_read_pw() to do the work.
des_read_pw_string() is a variant of des_read_pw() that provides a buffer for you if verify is set.
des_read_password() calls des_read_pw() and converts the password to a DES key by calling DES_string_to_key(); des_read_2password() oper-
ates in the same way as des_read_password() except that it generates two keys by using the DES_string_to_2key() function.
NOTES
des_read_pw_string() is available in the MIT Kerberos library as well, and is also available under the name EVP_read_pw_string().
SEE ALSO ui(3), ui_create(3)AUTHOR
Richard Levitte (richard@levitte.org) for the OpenSSL project (http://www.openssl.org).
0.9.7a 2001-10-25 ui_compat(3)