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



Op 24/01/2020 om 18:56 schreef Ottavio Caruso:
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.


Thank you all for your help. One more thing. Is there any trick I can use to get $PWD expanded as "~" rather than "/home/oc"? This takes a lot of real estate.

--
Ottavio Caruso



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