Re: How do you set $PS1 on /bin/ksh

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 16:34, Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> On 24.01.2020 14:19, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > [hoping my post doesn't arrive duplicated or triplicated]
> >
> > How do you set the prompt in ksh? The man page doesn't seem to help.
> > OpenBSD ksh has a different manpage. Compare:
> > https://man.openbsd.org/ksh.1#PS1
> > and
> > https://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ksh
> >
> > For example:
> > PS1="\u@\h:\w\$ "
> >
> > is not expanded.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
> Personally, I use:
>
> export PS1='! $(whoami)@$(hostname) $PWD $ '
>

This works. Thanks.

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Ottavio Caruso