UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

The question is that I'm using a terminal emulation program (X-Win32) to access Unix, because here in my work we have just WindowsNT in the clients and Solaris at the servers. All the database and shared softwares are at the servers and we have to access it throught the terminal.
I have already tried to read the csh and tcsh man pages but these shells are quite different. I think that are impossible to do that changes in the csh prompt.

At this point of view bash are more simple to consult, because its man page are more complete than csh.

Another thing that I'm not satisfied with csh is that we don't have the choice of "colored ls". In bash, this options turn the visualization of the contents easier.

That's all

Luiz

I'm using 95% of the time FreeBSD and OpenBSD, and I said this because Linux uses bash, and AFAIK csh is linked to bash, and in the same time csh on FreeBSD is tcsh.

Hi,

I do not know how it works in c or bash shell. But in k shell you have can do the following

export BOLD=`echo \033[1`
export NORMAL=`echo \033[0`

similarly for underline, reverse text etc replace the number 1 with other values. before any text you type just add this shell variable and after this text add the $NORMAL.

e.g
PWD=`pwd`
PS1="$BOLD`hostname`$NORMAL :$PWD.

This gives you a prompt with the hostname in bold followed by the present working directory



Hope this helps you

rgds
penguin

my prompt is set as follows:

Code:

        set prompt = '[%B%n@%m%b] %B%~%b%# '

It works in tcsh. %B means /bold/, %b means /end of bold/