Re: [leaf-user] Bourne SHell prompt problems
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:25:23AM -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: I've tried about fifteen ways to get the prompt to look like this: [root@firewall /usr/sbin]# --- where /usr/sbin is a current working directory To get PWD as part of the prompt in ash, you have to intercept the cd command (and other commands that might change your directory)...details are available in the SF FAQ-o-matic: http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=5178group_id=13751 This is also a shell FAQ; look at http://www.faqs.org and look at the comp.unix.shell FAQ, question 2.4: How do I get the current directory into my prompt? Others have explained it already, but there you go anyway. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
Re: [leaf-user] Bourne SHell prompt problems
Rob Fegley wrote: I've tried about fifteen ways to get the prompt to look like this: [root@firewall /usr/sbin]# --- where /usr/sbin is a current working directory I use bash; so, I cannot vouch for ash: # PS1=`echo -n -e [$USER@$HOSTNAME $HOME]# ` [root@trout /root]# hth -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy. http://thinkgeek.com/sf leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
Re: [leaf-user] Bourne SHell prompt problems
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Rob Fegley wrote: I've tried about fifteen ways to get the prompt to look like this: [root@firewall /usr/sbin]# --- where /usr/sbin is a current working directory to no avail. The best I ever get is /root, which was the value of $PWD (or output of `pwd`) at the time that the PS1 was exported. The following line is what I want: echo -n -e \n[$USER@$HOSTNAME `/bin/pwd`]# At least, it works from the shell, just not within the construct of an exported variable. The embedded command always gets parsed upon export of the variable rather than when the variable is called. Any thoughts? If not, has anyone compiled a bash package for Bering or another LEAF variant? Thanks, again! I guess there is no way to do that with ash shell. In bash, you need to do: PS1='[\u@\h \w]\$' However bash is probably too BIG for a floppy. You can look for an ancient version of bash and compile yourself, but IMO it doesn't worth it. -- Julio César Gázquez Area Redes, Informatica y Comunicaciones UTN - Facultad Regional Rosario http://www.frro.utn.edu.ar --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy. http://thinkgeek.com/sf leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
Re: [leaf-user] Bourne SHell prompt problems
On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 06:26, Rob Fegley wrote: At least, it works from the shell, just not within the construct of an exported variable. The embedded command always gets parsed upon export of the variable rather than when the variable is called. Any thoughts? If not, has anyone compiled a bash package for Bering or another LEAF variant? Thanks, again! Rob, Charles packaged Bash 2.01.1(1). http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/leaf/bin/packages/glibc-2.0/ -- Mike Noyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ http://leaf-project.org/ --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy. http://thinkgeek.com/sf leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
Re: [leaf-user] Bourne SHell prompt problems
Michael D. Schleif wrote:
Rob Fegley wrote:
I've tried about fifteen ways to get the prompt to look like this:
[root@firewall /usr/sbin]# --- where /usr/sbin is a current working directory
I use bash; so, I cannot vouch for ash:
# PS1=`echo -n -e [$USER@$HOSTNAME $HOME]# `
[root@trout /root]#
Sorry, that was incomplete. This ia what I do:
Put this in /etc/profile:
# Set the prompt else than login
cdprompt () {
command cd $@
export PS1=`echo -n -e \n$USER@$HOSTNAME:$PWD\n# `
}
alias cd=cdprompt
Then, I put this in ~/.profile:
export PS1=`echo -n -e \n$USER@$HOSTNAME:$HOME\n# `
Obviously, you can modify those variable strings to do pretty much
anything you want to see; but, again, this is working under bash and not
ash . . .
hth
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Re: [leaf-user] Bourne SHell prompt problems
I've tried about fifteen ways to get the prompt to look like this: [root@firewall /usr/sbin]# --- where /usr/sbin is a current working directory to no avail. The best I ever get is /root, which was the value of $PWD (or output of `pwd`) at the time that the PS1 was exported. The following line is what I want: echo -n -e \n[$USER@$HOSTNAME `/bin/pwd`]# At least, it works from the shell, just not within the construct of an exported variable. The embedded command always gets parsed upon export of the variable rather than when the variable is called. Any thoughts? If not, has anyone compiled a bash package for Bering or another LEAF variant? Thanks, again! If you're running ash (the default), it does *NO* dynamic processing on the PS1 PS2 variables, so you can't (easily) get things like the PWD to display as part of the prompt. You can either upgrade to a shell which does support this sort of processing of the prompt variables, or cheat, and do it yourself with ash. To get PWD as part of the prompt in ash, you have to intercept the cd command (and other commands that might change your directory)...details are available in the SF FAQ-o-matic: http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=5178group_id=13751 Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy. http://thinkgeek.com/sf leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
