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

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-degen%yahoo.com@localhost>]

Op 24/01/2020 om 18:56 schreef Ottavio Caruso:
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 16:34, Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost> 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.

Thank you all for your help. One more thing. Is there any trick I can 
use to get $PWD expanded as "~" rather than "/home/oc"? This takes a lot 
of real estate.

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Ottavio Caruso