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)
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)
Hi,
I am using git bash terminal window to do git operations. I have set the prompt string variable PS1 in the ~/.bashrc file as follows:
export PS1=" "
This is intended to show me the current git branch's name which is active as part of the prompt string. But, the problem is when I do a git... (2 Replies)
I have coded PS1 as shown, producing the following result when writing on the command line
┌─ cdl
└──╼ make tracepdf2d
If I make an error in the command an ✗ is printed
┌─ ✗ cdl
└──╼ ls-a
ls-a: command not found
My problem is that if I just press enter, I do not want to have the... (3 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)
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gcin
GCIN(1) gcin input method platform GCIN(1)NAME
gcin - an input method server
SYNOPSIS
gcin [-h|-v|--version]
DESCRIPTION
gcin is an input method(IM) server, which focused mainly on Traditional Chinese. It is also very useful for Simplified Chinese, Japanese,
and many other languages. IM table format of gcin is almost as same as those of scim and xcin. Users may append their IMs to gcin very eas-
ily. The "g" of gcin means that it features a better GTK+ user interface.
If you are looking for configuration tool of gcin, please see the manpage of gcin-tools.
OPTIONS -h, -v, --version
Show version of gcin.
FILES
/usr/share/gcin/table/gtab.list
Input methods available for gcin. You may copy it to $HOME/.gcin/ and edit it as you like. If you have no $HOME/.gcin/gtab.list,
/usr/share/gcin/table/gtab.list will be used.
/usr/share/gcin/script/html-browser
A file helps gcin finding html browsers when needed. You may add any compatible html browser to it.
/usr/share/gcin/script/utf8-edit
A file helps gcin finding text editors when needed. You may add any UTF-8 compatible text editor to it.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
LC_CTYPE
For bash: export LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8
For csh: setenv LC_CTYPE zh_TW.UTF-8
XMODIFIERS
For bash: export XMODIFIERS=@im=gcin
For csh: setenv XMODIFIERS @im=gcin
GTK_IM_MODULE
For bash: export GTK_IM_MODULE=gcin
For csh: setenv GTK_IM_MODULE gcin
QT_IM_MODULE
For bash: export QT_IM_MODULE=gcin
For csh: setenv QT_IM_MODULE gcin
GCIN_CONNECT_MSG_ON
Display messages for socket connections.
GCIN_DBG_TMP
Display additional debug messages.
GCIN_ERR_COREDUMP
Option for debugging.
GCIN_IM_CLIENT_NO_AUTO_EXEC
Disable auto-evoke in gcin protocol.
GCIN_OUTPUT_FILTER
Assign output filter to process data before the IM server send them to clients.
GCIN_TABLE_DIR
Assign directory for IM tables other then /usr/share/gcin/table.
SEE ALSO gcin-tools(1), gcin2tab(1), phoa2d(1), juyin-learn(1), gcin-message(1)AUTHORS
Edward Der-Hua Liu
Wrote gcin and associated tools.
Friend of Chanjei IM, Malaysia <www.chinesecj.com>
Author of original Chanjei IM version 5 table.
Dayi Co., Ltd. <http://www.dayi.com>
Author of Dayi IM.
GCIN 1.4.4 2 FEB 2008 GCIN(1)