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Thank you Don Cragun, the sed command with the space word in it worked, thank you for clarifying my mistakes as well.

Have a great week.

Martin

First of all, thank you all for your replies and suggestions, unfortunately, it's still not working.

So far per your suggestions, I have tried these:

sed...

UNIX gurus

I need your help with the following (The server is an AIX box).

I have a text file with the following information:

********************************************************
SOME...

MadeinGermany:

When I typed your suggestion, I get :

HOSTNAME=kdsan004: is not an identifier

Also, if I type anything in ' ', I get the same stuff within the single quotes as a...

Vgersh99:

I changed PS1 to:

PS1="[\$USER@\$(hostname):\$PWD] "
export PS1

and I got this:

[$USER@$(hostname):$PWD] pwd
/opt/apps/twsapps
[$USER@$(hostname):$PWD] cd TWA...

jlliagre:

First of all, thank you for your willingness to help. You're very kind.
So, I got this prompt: twsapps@kdsan004:/opt/apps/twsapps> by defining PS1 in the .profile as :...

jlliagre: Yes I am:

twsapps@kdsan004:/opt/apps/twsapps> echo $SHELL
/bin/ksh

Any other thoughts ?

Thanks.

vgersh99: I'm using Korn shell, and your suggestion / command didn't work. Any ideas/code for the Korn shell (Solaris box).
SunOS kdsan004 5.10 Generic_150400-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise...

Hi, I need help changing PS1 in Solaris. I tried this:
MYPROMPT="> "

PS1=$LOGNAME@$HOSTNAME:${PWD}$MYPROMPT (NOT SURE WHY IT'S HIGHLIGHTED HERE)

export PS1

My problem is that $PWD is not...