How to change prompt in ksh??

sivesh pradhaan sivesh at rebels.ingr.com
Wed Dec 12 07:07:07 AEST 1990


In article <2423 at sparko.gwu.edu>, fc173108 at seas.gwu.edu (Iqbal Qazi) writes:
|> My prompt is now:
|> 
|> fc173108 at sparko:xxx:
|>    ^^^     ^^^  ^^^
|>     |       |    |
|> account  machine line#
|> 
|> and I would rather have my path shown, or the time, or just something else.
|> 
|> I mean, I know which account I'm in, and what machine I'm on.  I think
|> I need to stick something in my .kshrc file but I don't know what.



put PS1="what_ever_you_want_your_prompt_to_be" in your .profile

-Sivesh 



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