[2989] in Athena Bugs
[Dave Whitney A junior (well, a senior) in Computer Science at MIT: prompt...]
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Thu Aug 24 20:51:36 1989
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 20:51:22 -0400
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Subject: prompt...
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 17:39:08 EDT
From: Dave Whitney A junior (well, a senior) in Computer Science at MIT <dcw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
In my last message, I suggested something which I now see isn't a good
idea. How about this instead?
if ($?prompt) then # For interactive shells only (i.e., NOT rsh):
stty dec # Use DEC-style control characters
set user=`ps -u | awk '{print $1}'`
set user=`echo $user | awk '{print $2}'`
set prompt="$USER@`hostname`% " # make a unique prompt for each user
set history = 20 # Number of commands saved as history
set cdpath = (~) # Path to search for directory changes
set interactive # Provide shell variable for compatability
endif
This makes my prompt be:
dcw@<machine_name>%
Which is usually just 'dcw@m11-111-1% '
You'll note the funkiness with setting user - I did this on the Sun at my
UROP. It insures that anyone who might run 'su' has his prompt changed to
'root@<machine>% '.
Just random suggestions...
Dave
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