Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 11:45:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Alex Heiphetz <heiphetz@cvzoom.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: prompt customization Message-ID: <19980520114541.A20476@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980519203929.009d95b0@cvzoom.net>; from Alex Heiphetz on Tue, May 19, 1998 at 08:39:29PM -0400 References: <3.0.5.32.19980519203929.009d95b0@cvzoom.net>
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On Tue, 19 May 1998 at 20:39:29 -0400, Alex Heiphetz wrote: > Thank you for the great product and much help > onmy previous question. > Now I have a really small one: I'm trying to > customize prompt to show prompt number. I added > > PS1="(\#) $" > export PS1 > > to /etc/profile, but as prompt I get *literal* > > (\#) $ > > instead of something like > > (24) $ > > Where did I screw up? You used the wrong shell. I'd guess it's the Bourne shell sh. bash (the Bourne again shell) can do this. > BTW, what is the way to change root prompt in the same manner? Exactly the same thing. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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