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

Prompt display

Ali KEMAL — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:16:30 GMT

Hi,

I am so new on HP-UX. After I created a user,
I logged in by the new user. Now I want to change the prompt "$" to this figure "hostname:/$". But I couldn't do it.
I couldn't find a command and find the new user's ".profile" file though searching forums.
Can anybody help me.
If somebody show step by step this how to be done, it would be so good because I am not good at Unix.
Thanks,
Ali Kemal.

Re: Prompt display

Robert-Jan Goossens — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:17:23 GMT

Hi Ali,

Add these lines to your user $HOME\.profile

PS1=$(hostname):\$PWD" $ "
export PS1

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: Prompt display

Gokul Chandola — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:20:50 GMT

Hi,
There is .dtprofile if .dtprofile is not available.

$ls -all

Regards,
Gokul Chandola

Re: Prompt display

vidyadhar_1 — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:21:28 GMT

you can simply add the following line in that user's .profile file
export PS1="`hostname`:/$"
and as suggested ypu can do ls -a to see .profile file or just type vi .profile