7.2 Basics of Setting the PromptThe prompt displayed by your shell is contained in a shell variable ( 6.8 ) called prompt in the C shell and PS1 in the Bourne shell. As such, it can be set like any other shell variable. [ bash and tcsh have plenty of extra features for those two variables. There are examples in later articles. -JP ] So, for example, if I wanted to change my C shell prompt to include my login name, I might put the following command into my .cshrc file:
set prompt="tim % "
(It's helpful to leave the Or if I wanted to put in the name of the system I was currently logged in on, I might say:
If I wanted to include the history number for each command, ( 11.1 ) I'd say:
set prompt="\! % " Or if I wanted all three things:
set prompt="tim@`uname -n` \!% " This will give me a prompt like this:
tim@isla 43% - |
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