On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 16:34, Kamil Rytarowski <n...@gmx.com> 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. -- Ottavio Caruso