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

[Pedro Pinho <pmppinho%gmail.com@localhost>]

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 <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> skrev:

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

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Ottavio Caruso