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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Need assistance in changing prompt .
Trying to change prompt in csh,tcsh shell . Below are the commands i tried in .cshrc and sourcing this files.
set prompt = "$user@`uname -n` : ${cwd}> "
#above commands works for username and hostname but cwd doesnt change
directories
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, i was wondering if it is possible to change the default prompt for the shells that are availble on your system?
For example, i want to change the prompt for the C shell from % to something like ( or ).
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I want to change the shell prompt, using the cd command.
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I currently have this as my prompt when I log in (shell is sh):
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My question is how do I add the current directory to that prompt? Is there a way?
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Hi,
I want to change my command prompt to contain the current username and the current directory in it, instead of just the '$' symbol.
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Phew simple question,
I want to display the my directory path in prompt.
Did the following in .profile
PS1=`pwd`
export PS!
Worked, but it always points to HOME directory.
When i do a cd, it doesn't change.
What am i missing.
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Me again,
What is the difficulty to display the full directory Path before my prompt command ? (like DOS)
I'm using Solaris 8 + Bash
Thanks again
Fabien (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: unclefab
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11-17-2006
} but I am trying to set the prompt in the .profile under sh. I have tried everything I have seen on the web in regards to this, with no success. The OS is SCO Unixware 7.1.1, {not by my choice}. All the examples I see seem to be for ksh, which is not an option on this server, as it is specifically setup for sh for a product that runs on the server. Does anybody have any examples of using pwd in this environment to set the prompt to the current directory in sh?