Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:44:57 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting prompt in tcsh Message-ID: <20001018134457.B302@gray.westgate.gr> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20001018163847.007ab6b0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>; from mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 04:38:47PM %2B0700 References: <3.0.6.32.20001018163847.007ab6b0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 04:38:47PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote:
>
> Using bash I set PS1 to "[\u@\h:\w]" and then test to see if I'm root
> or not to add '$' or '#'. This gives me a nice prompt like
> '[acharn@ceres:/usr/ports/security]$ ', which is useful because I have
> two machines I telnet to and it's nice to be reminded if I've su'd to
> root and just what directory I'm currently in. I've been going through
> man 1 tcsh and haven't found anything similar, and I can't find the
> web site I ran across a couple of months ago which had unix tutorials,
> including one on shells.
>
> Can anyone help me out with an expression to put in .cshrc or .tcshrc
> so I can get a similar prompt in tcsh? After playing with it a little
> bit I've decided I should restore it as the shell for root (since tcsh
> lives in /bin).
I think that I got what you want:
% set prompt = '[%n@%m:%~]%# '
[charon@gray:~]> su
Password:
gray# set prompt = '[%n@%m:%~]%# '
[charon@gray:/home/charon]# exit
For more details, see the manpage of tcsh(1).
Ciao :)
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