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# 1  
Old 12-03-2014
RHEL6 customizing prompt do not work
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 :
Code:
PS1="Hello : "

and it works

but when i used
Code:
PS1="\u@\h $"

the prompt is :
Code:
u@h $

Thank You for your help
# 2  
Old 12-03-2014
Hello Fundix,

Could you please try following and let me know if this helps.
Code:
PS1='\[\e[1;31m\][\u@\h \W]\$\[\e[0m\] '


Thanks,
R. Singh
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# 3  
Old 12-03-2014
/u and /h do work in bash. I don't think they do in ksh, which has different methods.
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# 4  
Old 12-06-2014
Thank You Smilie
# 5  
Old 12-06-2014
You might test something like this in .kshrc:
Code:
PS1=$(printf "%s%s%s" '\[\033[1;31m\]' "$(whoami)@$(hostname): $(basename $PWD) # " '\[\033[0m\]')

Last edited by Don Cragun; 12-06-2014 at 10:05 PM.. Reason: forgot to turn the color off at the end & change ICODE tags to CODE tags.
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