> -----Original Message----- > From: Derek Martin [mailto:gnhlug@;sophic.org] > Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 11:21 AM > To: GNHLUG mailing list > Subject: Re: making vars in bash script accessible from shell > > > Well, there's Pine for Windows... ;-)
I'm thinking about trying Mozilla's mail client -- anyone have any experience with it? Any good? (I'm not sure if I can get it to access the Exchains mail server... I'll have to research it.) > > Where I'm running into trouble is getting this value to > > be echoed in my prompt, which is set in my .bashrc to this: > > > > PS1="[\u@\h:${newPWD}]\$ " > > You need to get $newPWD expanded at prompt time. > > temp="\$newPWD" > PS1="[\u@\h:$temp]\$ " > > Voila! > > Though I personally prefer a newline before the \$. That way, my > prompt doesn't interfere (much) with long commands... AHHHH!!!! That did it. At the end of my "fixedprompt.sh" shell script I added the temporary variable and assigned as its value the escaped $newPWD (as you directed) and it works beautifully! Thanks Derek and everyone else too. Made my day. Erik _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss