topic Re: Custom Prompt in Operating System - HP-UX

Custom Prompt

akdkumar — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 04:50:46 GMT

How do I customise shell prompt to display current working directory in HPUX?...

Re: Custom Prompt

Arunvijai_4 — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 04:54:29 GMT

Hello,

Just put this line at the end of your /etc/profile or .profile

export PS1='`hostname`: ${PWD}>'

-Arun

Re: Custom Prompt

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 04:57:35 GMT

It is simple as,

export PS1="${PWD} #"

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Muthu

Re: Custom Prompt

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 04:59:30 GMT

It is permanent to that shell. That is.. it is temporary only. To make permanent then put it in your $HOME/.profile or /etc/profile file as,

export PS1="${PWD} #"

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Muthu

Re: Custom Prompt

Devender Khatana — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 05:01:40 GMT

Hi,

A better option will be to also display current hostname as well alongwith current directory. To achive this put this entry in /etc/profile

export PS1=`hostname`:'$PWD>>'

Also if te same is required to be in GUI mode then unmark the last line in .dtprofile, of that user's home directory.

HTH,
Devender

Re: Custom Prompt

Cem Tugrul — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 05:04:10 GMT

Hi,
Just put this line at the end of your /etc/profile or .profile

PS1="`tput bold``uname -n``tput rmso` \$PWD > "
export PS1

Good Luck,

Re: Custom Prompt

Cem Tugrul — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 05:06:14 GMT

Hi,
Just put this line at the end of your /etc/profile or .profile

PS1="`tput bold``uname -n``tput rmso` \$PWD > "
export PS1

Good Luck,

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Re: Custom Prompt

Sivakumar TS — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 05:06:19 GMT

Hi,

Add the following line in

.profile

export PS1="${PWD}#"

With Regards,

Siva.

Re: Custom Prompt

Raj D. — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 05:19:03 GMT

Hi Akdkumar ,

Just use PS1 to set your customized shell prompt as many example mentioned above.
[Details # man sh-posix ]

You can also set the prmpt in .profile , by putting like this :

export PS1="`hostname` : $PWD>> : `date |awk '{print $1 $2 $3}' ` >>"

Cheers,
Raj.

Re: Custom Prompt

akdkumar — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 04:36:44 GMT

Hi All

Solution Accepted.

Thank You.

Re: Custom Prompt

Arunvijai_4 — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 04:41:44 GMT

Hi,

You can close this thread, if you found a solution.

-Arun

Re: Custom Prompt

akdkumar — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 04:47:02 GMT

Solution received from multiple respondents

Re: Custom Prompt

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 04:48:16 GMT

Shalom akdkumar,

Usually PS1 is customized in ~/.kshrc file.

Some admins put it in /.kshrc

Customizing PS2 might cause confusion because what is there by default is expected by most admins.

Congrats on your solution.

SEP