topic Re: .profile file setting in Operating System - HP-UX

.profile file setting

Mallikarjun B — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:15:27 GMT

Hi,
I need to set an entry in .profile file for PS1 which should show me the login prompt like username@hostname:PWD in colour. I tried with PS1="`whoami`@`hostname`:\$PWD\>" but i am not able to see in colours. I tried with
\033[1;43m text \033[0m but not able to see. Please help me.

Thanks in Advance.

Re: .profile file setting

Dennis Handly — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:05:19 GMT

What type of terminal or terminal emulator do you have?
What colors do you want?

Re: .profile file setting

Mallikarjun B — Tue, 25 May 2010 22:56:44 GMT

Hi I am using TERM=xterm and want display any colours.

Tx

Re: .profile file setting

Dennis Handly — Wed, 26 May 2010 06:02:41 GMT

That string works fine for me, yellowish.
What shell and OS version are you using?

Re: .profile file setting

Mallikarjun B — Wed, 26 May 2010 06:34:38 GMT

I am using HP-UX 11.31 and i tried it for k shell bash shell. i do echo to this can also see what you can. But to set in profile file i cant use echo.

Tx

Re: .profile file setting

Dennis Handly — Thu, 27 May 2010 06:26:02 GMT

>I am using HP-UX 11.31

Any reason you are in the wrong forum? I'll ask the moderators to move it.

>But to set in profile file I can't use echo.

Can't use echo why? Because you only want to set PS1?

Re: .profile file setting

Mallikarjun B — Thu, 27 May 2010 07:29:01 GMT

can u pls send me the PS1=root@hostname:PWD format in colour so that i wil try here...

Re: .profile file setting

singh sanjeev — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:43:57 GMT

please try this:

echo -e "\\033[1;43m text \\033[0m " ;

Re: .profile file setting

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:07:21 GMT

Hi:

Have a look at this thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=16960

Regards!

...JRF...