setting ps1 variable

[madhudeepan]

when i try to set ps1 variable its showing as

sh: not found

any path do be added????

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

ITRC member since: May 21, 2009
Last contribution date: December 14, 2009
I have assigned points to 17 of 298 responses to my questions.

[Torsten.]

What was your command?

[madhudeepan]

ps1="'whoami' in 'uname -n'"

[Modris Bremze]

Maybe this works:
export PS1="$LOGNAME `uname -n` \$> "

[rariasn]

Hi,

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

rgs,

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

Hi,

First,
PS1 must capital letter due to case sensitivy.

And small correction:

# export PS1="`whoami` in `uname -n`#"

[ManojK_1]

Hi,

What Hakki Aydin is said is correct.

command should be always in `` not in ''.

put the below given entry in .profile
export PS1="`whoami` in `uname -n`#"

Manoj K

[madhudeepan]

hi

i have changed the terminal TERM=vt100,, previous it was xterm terminal,,, now i need to add this variable entry permanent.

when i closed the session & open it again ,,, i am having the original variable that was before..

is it possiable to add it permanent

[Michael Steele_2]

Dude, you need to go back and assign points to all your responses.

[NouZ]

You can add the same in to .profile file , Then this will get fixed permanently i hope.