PWD in PS1

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

hi

this one would get a quicker response than by rooting through docs etc..

I want PS1 to go
user:hostname:/directory/path >

what's the entry I should use for the export PS1=
in my .profile

Thanks,
Bill

[Frederic Sevestre]

Hi,

You can try : PS1=`whoami`:`hostname`':$PWD>'
It works fine.

Fr??d??ric

[James Beamish-White]

Hi Bill,

user:hostname:/directory/path >

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

Cheers,
James

[Darrell Allen]

Hi Bill,

PS1=`whoami`":"`hostname`":"'$PWD >'

Darrell

[Marcin Wicinski]

Hi Bill,

PS1=`tput smso`$(whoami)":"$(hostname)'${PWD#$HOME/}# '">"

Later,

[Marcin Wicinski]

Sorry, one mistake:

PS1=`tput smso`$(whoami)":"$(hostname)'${PWD#$HOME/}# '">"`tput rmso`

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

sorry, forgot to mention.

I need this to echo the export

ie:

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

or equivalent

[James Beamish-White]

Hi Bill

echo? Why? You should be able to do:

PS1=...
export PS1

If you need to echo it... you should be able to escape any special characters above with a \ and the echo should work.

Cheers,
James

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

it has to echo because it goes into an ignite post_install_script.

Later,
Bill

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Bill,

Use this in your .profile

HOST=`/usr/bin/hostname`
USER=$LOGNAME
export PS1='$USER:$HOST:$PWD>'

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Frederic Sevestre]

Hi,
With echo :
echo "PS1=\`whoami\`:\`hostname\`:'\$PWD > '"
Regards
Fr??d??ric

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

user must change to who I su to.

and su without the - so via whoami.

But it must be dome via an echo so all the ''s won't work.

Later,
Bill

[Frederic Sevestre]

Oups, i forget the export :
echo "export PS1=\`whoami\`:\`hostname\`:'\$PWD > '"

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

root:pereal:/usr > echo "export PS1=\`whoami\`:\`hostname\`:'\$PWD > '"
export PS1=`whoami`:`hostname`:'$PWD > '
root:pereal:/usr > export PS1=`whoami`:`hostname`:'$PWD > '
root:pereal:/usr > id
uid=0(root) gid=3(sys)
root:pereal:/usr > su www
root:pereal:/usr > id
uid=30(www) gid=1(other)
root:pereal:/usr >

Not quite....
Later,
Bill

[G. Vrijhoeven · Accepted solution]

Hi Bill,

You can add:
`id | awk -F"\(" '{print}'|awk -F"\)" '{print $1}'`

for username changes

Hope this will help,

Gideon

[Volker Borowski]

What about this ?

# id
uid=0(root) gid=3(sys) groups=0(root),1(other),2(bin),4(adm),5(daemon),6(mail),7(lp),20(users)
# id -u -n
root
# su e30adm
% id -u -n
e30adm
%

Volker

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Sorrie forgot something:

id | awk -F"\(" '{print $2}'|awk -F"\)" '{print $1}'

[Darrell Allen]

Hey Bill,

su www doesn't execute .profile so you're going to have to reset PS1, right? Your environment didn't change, just your id.

I'm still not following on the need for echo.

Darrell

[Volker Borowski]

Hi Bill,

thanks for the ten, but does it actually work now ???

I think I now understand what you want, and it will not work with my solution either, because either
`whoami` and `id -u -n`
are evaluated at the time PS1= is set, while $PWD is an embeded shell-variable and updated dynamicly. Same with the hostname.

So I suspect after

root:pereal:/usr > su www

you want the prompt to appear as

www:pereal:/usr >

???
Right / Wrong / Confusion
Volker

[Bill Hassell]

If you cd real deep into the Ignite directory, you might end up with a prompt string that is REALLLLY long:

bambam:/opt/ignite/newconfig/var/opt/ignite/local/manifest #

Here's a nice shell construct that will capture the last 2 directories in the tree:

HN=$(/usr/bin/hostname)
PS1='$HN :${PWD##${PWD%/*/*}/} # '

Now the prompt is:

bambam:local/manifest #

If you want just the current basename directory, trim the above down to:

PS1='$HN :${PWD##*/} # '

[Darrell Allen]

Okay, for really long dir paths in the prompt use:
PS1=`whoami`":"`hostname`":"'$PWD
> '

Note the newline after $PWD continues the prompt on the next line.

Darrell