An odd problem using .kshrc, if I run with this in my home login directory it works fine other than if I use 'man', where each word of the manual entry is on a seperate line ?. I'm using AIX 5.3 (it worked fine on 5.2). Anyone seen this before ? (3 Replies)
How to get the current working directory as part of the command prompt? Every time I chage the folder, my command prompt path shoud change. I am using Korn Shell. Any help is greatly appreciated. (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am facing two problems in my environment. Anyone can help on this?
Thanks in advance.
Problem 1
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When i login into my new unix system, only the .profile is executing.
.kshrc is not executing. But my default shell is .ksh
Any setup to be changed ?
Problem 2... (7 Replies)
In my .profile, my prompt is set like this:
set -o vi
PS1=`logname`@`hostname -s`:'$PWD>'
Is there a way to show what the history number would be of the command I'm typing in the prompt? For example, I frequently run commands then run 'history' to pull up the history number of a command... (2 Replies)
When I use "/" to look for a particular command that I typed in the current session it says
D02:-/home/user1/temp> /job
ksh: /job: not found.
D02:-/home/user1/temp>
previously it used to fetch all the commands which had job in it..
for example subjob, endjob, joblist etc...
may I... (7 Replies)
Greetings!
I have to work with a NFS user id between two hosts: A running Ksh 93 and B running pdksh 88.
My problem has to do with the custom prompt I created on A: it works like a charm and display colors:
PS1="$'\E
But I switch over to B, it all goes to hell (private info... (4 Replies)
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)
I have used this color prompt on my servers for long time, in file ~\.bashrc
Black="\"
Dark="\"
Blue="\"
LBlue="\"
Green="\"
LGreen="\"
Cyan="\"
LCyan="\"
Red="\"
LRed="\"
Purple="\"
LPurple="\"
Brown="\"
Yellow="\"
LGray="\"
White="\"
Reset="\"
PS1="$Yellow\u@\h $LBlue\w... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I'm trying to customize the ksh prompt for users on a RHEL 6.6 system for having user@host pwd : $ and user@host pwd # in red color for root.
I think it's possible but i do not even succeded for a non root user :
I added in my ~/.kshrc :
PS1="Hello : " and it works
but when i... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to run this command to connect to each server without being prompted for the password. How can I do this in Linux redhat 7.2:
for HOST in $VIPS; do
su - Myadminid -c "ssh -o ConnectTimeout=10 $HOST 'date; hostname; pkill -9 -f -u Myadminid xx00 ; ps -ef |grep Myadminid'" ... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: mrn6430
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surfraw-update-path
SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)NAME
surfraw-update-path - updates PATH in shell config files
SYNOPSIS
surfraw-update-path [-add] [-remove] [-check] [-sys] [-all] [-help] [-shell=SHELL]
DESCRIPTION
surfraw-update-path adds the surfraw elvi directory (/usr/lib/surfraw) to your PATH in your shell's config file.
Currently it supports bash, sh, csh, tcsh, ash, dash, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es
Don't forget to login again or source your login files for it to take effect.
OPTIONS -check
Checks to see if the surfraw config code is present. This is the default.
-add
Adds the surfraw config code.
-remove
Removes the surfraw config code
-sys
Updates the system-wide shell config instead of the user. Must be done as root.
-shell=SHELL
Selects the shell to configure. Defaults to the value of the $SHELL environment variable.
Currently supported shells are:
sh, ash, bash, dash, csh, tcsh, ksh, pdksh, zsh, rc, and es.
-all
Attempts to configure the startup files for all known shells
-help
Gives a usage message
RETURN VALUE -check returns 0 if the surfraw code is present in the file, 1 if it is not found, or 2 on error.
All other options return 0 on success, or 2 on error.
ENVIRONMENT
SHELL
Used to determine which shell to configure, if -shell is not given.
HOME
Used to find users config files.
ENV Used by posix-compliant shells to specify a startup rc file.
ZDOTDIR
Used to find user config files for zsh. If not set, defaults to HOME.
SEE ALSO surfraw(1), sh(1), ash(1), bash(1), dash(1), csh(1), tcsh(1), ksh(1), pdksh(1), zsh(1), rc(1), es(1)AUTHOR
Ian Beckwith <ianb@erislabs.net>
perl v5.12.4 2011-07-12 SURFRAW-UPDATE-PATH(1)