On Oct 02 10:05:19, [email protected] wrote: > I tried the suggestion of Crystal but sure > launching in the end the prompt string change command from shell make the > prompt string change happening. As I would tranform all in an rc script the > problem remains changing the prompt string from inside my test script.. > > thx both > > #!/bin/sh > p="wiz$PWD\$ " > g=`cat /etc/mygate` > > ping -q -L -c 1 -w 1 $g > .nettest.log 2>/dev/null > r1=`cut -d r -f 4 -s .nettest.log` > > if [ "$r1" -eq "et=-1"]; then
ping itself has an exit status > export PS1="$p" > echo 0 > else > export PS1="ww-$p" > echo 1 > fi > > #echo '"done." > > I'm launching it from the shell of my user. Evrything is fine, the network > status change get detected (beside network latency) but no prompt string > change happens. Because that code is not running in your shell; it is runing in the #!/bin/sh subshell, which is another process.
