On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 02:08:16PM +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Hi, > > I have this in ~/.kshrc : > > PS1="\u@\h:\w\$ " > > which works fine in ksh: > > oc@OpenBSD:~$ > > However, if I open a sh subshell, I get: > > \u@OpenBSD:\w$ > > which is not very nice. The only hack I've found is to append this to > ~/.profile: > > > if [ -n "$KSH_VERSION" ]; then > if [ -f "$HOME/.kshrc" ]; then > . "$HOME/.kshrc" > fi > fi > > I wonder if there is a more elegant solution.
Hi, the more elegant solution is to set ENV appropriately. ~/.profile is normally read only at login, while sub-shells will source whatever file is specified in ENV. HTH --
