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

[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 <ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com>
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
>
> --
> Ottavio Caruso
>