topic Re: .profile POSIX shell in Operating System - HP-UX

.profile POSIX shell

Jason Heisley — Thu, 04 Apr 2002 14:59:02 GMT

I am trying to get the hostname to appear at the prompt.

In .profile
export PS1='$LOGNAME@$hostname: $PWD $'

All I get is a blank space. Is the hostname not loaded at startup?

Re: .profile POSIX shell

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:04:51 GMT

it's either

export PS1='$LOGNAME@`hostname`: $PWD $'

which uses the command 'hostname' in backticks, or

export PS1='$LOGNAME@$HOST: $PWD $'

using the environment variable $HOST, which is not always set, so I'd go for the backtick way

Re: .profile POSIX shell

James Beamish-White — Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:05:28 GMT

I use command execution....

PS1='('`hostname`' $LOGNAME) $PWD $ '

Try that.

Cheers,
James

Re: .profile POSIX shell

Charles McCary — Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:06:06 GMT

Here's one:

PS1=`uname -n`:`id -un`:'${PWD}''# '\

Re: .profile POSIX shell

Helen French — Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:06:29 GMT

Hi,

If you just want the hostname at the prompt, add this to the .profile:

PS1="`hostname`# "

HTH,
Shiju

Re: .profile POSIX shell

Ceesjan van Hattum — Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:07:04 GMT

Your $hostname (or $HOSTNAME) is not set in your .profile while entering your shell.

You can also do a:
export PS1="$LOGNAME@`hostname`:$PWD $"
(using dubble-quotes and back-quotes); this works just fine too.

Regards,
Ceesjan

Re: .profile POSIX shell

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:07:23 GMT

Replace export PS1='$LOGNAME@$hostname: $PWD $'

with
export PS1=$LOGNAME@`hostname`':$PWD: '

Re: .profile POSIX shell

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:09:36 GMT

Hi Jason:

# export PS1="$LOGNAME@$(hostname): $PWD $"

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: .profile POSIX shell

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:11:08 GMT

Looks like an easy one: 7 answers in one minute!

I beat you, being the first :)))

N/A

Re: .profile POSIX shell

Jason Heisley — Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:20:20 GMT

I used James Beamish-White
post it works great.
procura post only returns hostname not the actual host name. Sorry

As for the others I have not tried them.

Re: .profile POSIX shell

Roger Baptiste — Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:21:48 GMT

hi,

this is the prompt i use. in the .profile file:
**
PWD=`pwd`
HOST=`hostname`
PS1='$HOST@$PWD>'
export PWD HOST PS1
**

HTh
raj

Re: .profile POSIX shell

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:25:05 GMT

That's because it's between single quotes :( and single quotes do not interpolate backticks

export PS1='$LOGNAME@'`hostname`': $PWD $'

should be it

I should have known it would be toooo easy :0

The comments however still hold

Re: .profile POSIX shell

Holger Knoppik — Thu, 04 Apr 2002 15:36:11 GMT

Hi Jason,

and another combination:
export PS1="$LOGNAME@`hostname`:\$PWD\$ "

RGDS, Holger