Re: Unix question: how to display SID and path in prompt

[Philip Douglass]

Title: Unix question: how to display SID and path in prompt

Put $PWD in there somewhere. I use ${PWD#${PWD%%*([!/])/*([!/])}} to display the last two directory levels, so my prompt never gets TOO long.   The substring extraction of $PWD is ksh specific. You could do it other ways, but this way it uses ksh builtins, so it is _fast_   As an example, when I am in my $ORACLE_HOME, my prompt ends up looking something like:   product/8.1.7 [09:54:42 AM] 181$   where 181 is the current command history number. ----- Original Message ----- From: Daiminger, Helmut To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 9:48 AM Subject: Unix question: how to display SID and path in prompt Hi! In my .profile of the oracle user (we're mostly using ksh here), I have set up the prompt that it gives me the host name and database SID. # always displays host name and Oracle SID as prompt PS1="`hostname`;`echo $ORACLE_SID`$ " How can I extend this prompt to also include the current directory that I'm in? e.g. prod1;PCLDB1; u010/app/oracle/admin/PCLDB1 Thanks, Helmut