.profile and .kshrc help

[Scott_20]

Good Day.
I'm building my first custom .profile and .kshrc and I was looking for some kool commands and what they do. for example, what do you do to set file completion in ksh, and kool stuff like that.
thx.
scott

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi Scott,

.profile and .kshrc options.

I suppose you use the korn shell.

you can use:
set -o vi # puts vi on at the command line (use / to search in history)
PS1=`uname -n`>"$PWD $" # to have machine name and dir name in prompt

do not forget to export the variables.

Hope this will get you started.

Gideon

[Roger Baptiste]

Setting prompt in .profile:
PWD=`pwd`
HOST=`hostname`
PS1='$HOST:$PWD>'
export PS1 PWD HOST

Setting history
set -o vi

Setting umask
umask 027

Shutoff messaging
mesg n

Appending to PATH
PATH=$PATH:xyz:xyz1
export PATH


These are not 'cool' commands but dull and necessary ones ;-)

-raj

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Scott:

Have a look at the "Shells: User's Guide" for a discussion of shell features:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90046/B2355-90046.html

Remember that you *never* want to change the default root shell, as defined in /etc/passwd', to be other than the Posix (sh) shell: '/sbin/sh'. Should you do this, you will end up with an unbootable system!

Since the Posix shell is a superset of the Korn shell, as provided by HP, I see no reason to use 'ksh'.

The 'vi' editor is set by default in the 'profile' provided in '/etc/skel/.profile' and file name completion (by pressing the ESC(ape) key twice) is part of the shell.

For my own sanity (and protection) I place the following aliases in my profiles:

alias cp='cp -ip'
alias mv='mv -i'
alias rm='rm -i'
alias rmdir='rmdir -i'

For ease of system identification I change the PS1 prompt to be:

PS1=`hostname`" # ";export PS1

...and I set a secure 'umask':

umask 027

Regards!

...JRF...