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

[Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost>]

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 $ '

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