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

2020-01-27 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:42:13 + From:Ottavio Caruso Message-ID: | One more thing. Is there any trick I can | use to get $PWD expanded as "~" rather than "/home/oc"? See my earlier reply in this thread. kre

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

2020-01-27 Thread Ottavio Caruso
Op 24/01/2020 om 18:56 schreef Ottavio Caruso: On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 16:34, Kamil Rytarowski 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

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

2020-01-25 Thread reed
In addition to the other recommendations, don't have the PS1 prompt run commands everytime the prompt is generated. For example, you don't need to run commands each prompt to figure out your username and hostname as likely they won't or cannot change in the same shell session. For example:

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

2020-01-24 Thread Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 07:05:29PM +, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 18:57, Robert Elz wrote: > > > > There are a zillion different things called ksh, I'm not > > sure which version OpenBSD have as ksh > > Strangely enough, both OSes report exactly the same version: > >

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

2020-01-24 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 16:34, Kamil Rytarowski 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.

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

2020-01-24 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 18:57, Robert Elz wrote: > > There are a zillion different things called ksh, I'm not > sure which version OpenBSD have as ksh Strangely enough, both OSes report exactly the same version: KSH_VERSION='@(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2' -- Ottavio Caruso

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

2020-01-24 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:19:39 + From:Ottavio Caruso Message-ID: | How do you set the prompt in ksh? The same way one would set it in any other Bourne shell (more or less) compatible shell, PS1='whatever' | The man page doesn't seem to help. It looks

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

2020-01-24 Thread Kamil Rytarowski
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 >

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

2020-01-24 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Ottavio Caruso wrote in : |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

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

2020-01-24 Thread Pedro Pinho
Here's mine, # .shrc file for sh(1). ll(){ ls -l ${1+"$@"}; } case "$-" in *i*) if /bin/test -z "${HOST}"; then HOST="$(hostname)" fi PS1="${USER}@${HOST%%.*} $PS1" set -o emacs ;; esac Den fre 24 jan. 2020 17:30Ottavio Caruso skrev: > Hi, > > [hoping my post doesn't arrive duplicated or

How do you set $PS1 on /bin/ksh

2020-01-24 Thread Ottavio Caruso
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