Mladen,
Your magnificent intuition and superior powers of reasoning
have finally failed you.
I've never touched VMS. ;)
Jared
"Gogala, Mladen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Jared, the "alias cd='go'" line immediately betrays you as a
former VMS person. Next thing you know and your aliases will
be like "set_def""
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>
>
> > Also be aware that when using backticks in your PS1
> variable, you are
> > influencing $? as a result.
>
> I don't find that to be true with pdksh - PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2
>
> function go {
> \cd $1
> typeset -Z2 _h; typeset -Z2 _m # 2
> digits, zero padded
> _hh="(SECONDS/3600)%24" _mm="(SECONDS/60)%60" # hours, minutes
> _time='${_x[(_m=_mm)==(_h=_hh)]}$_h:$_m'
> typeset bold=$(tput bold)
> typeset shy=$(tput rmso)
> PS1="[ `pwd` ]"
> PS1=$PS1`echo
> "\n\n${bold}$_time-${UMACHINE}:${ORACLE_SID}${shy}:${LOGNAME}-
> $TTY > "`
> # need to be able to turn xtitle off when using 'go'
> if [ "$TERM" = "xterm2" -o "$TERM" = "xterm" ] ;then
> # don't do xtitle if NO_CD_TITLE is set or in SCREEN
> #[ "$NO_CD_TITLE" -o "$WINDOW" -ge 1 ] || xtitle
> ${MACHINE}:${PWD}
> :
> fi
> }
>
> alias cd='go '
>
> --------------------
> 10:2-rsysdevdb:dv01:jkstill-3 > rm this_file_does_not_exist
> rm: cannot remove `this_file_does_not_exist': No such file or
> directory
> [ /home/jkstill/tmp ]
>
> 10:2-rsysdevdb:dv01:jkstill-3 > echo $?
> 1
> [ /home/jkstill/tmp ]
>
> 10:2-rsysdevdb:dv01:jkstill-3 > echo $?
> 0
> [ /home/jkstill/tmp ]
>
> 10:2-rsysdevdb:dv01:jkstill-3 >
>
> Jared
>
>
>
>
>
> "Curiel, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Also be aware that when using backticks in your PS1 variable, you are
> influencing $? as a result.
>
> What happens, is that when you run a command (i.e. "rm
> <some_file_that_doesnt_exist>") and then say "echo $?", you
> are getting
> the
> return code ($?) of your PS1 execution (which is likely to
> always be 0) -
> NOT the $? of the "rm" command.
>
> David Curiel
>
>
>
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