.profile POSIX shell

[Jason Heisley]

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?

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

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

[James Beamish-White · Accepted solution]

I use command execution....

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

Try that.

Cheers,
James

[Charles McCary]

Here's one:

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

[Helen French]

Hi,

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

PS1="`hostname`# "

HTH,
Shiju

[Ceesjan van Hattum]

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

[A. Clay Stephenson]

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

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

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Jason:

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

Regards!

...JRF...

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

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

I beat you, being the first :)))

N/A

[Jason Heisley]

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.

[Roger Baptiste]

hi,

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

HTh
raj

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

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

[Holger Knoppik]

Hi Jason,

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

RGDS, Holger