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From: cks@ziebmef.uucp (Chris Siebenmann)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.sources,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: KSHPR: prompt generator for .kshrc
Message-ID: <1989Jul5.010413.25749@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 5 Jul 89 05:04:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: ziebmef.1989Jul5.010413.25749
References: <19817@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: cks@ziebmef.UUCP (Chris Siebenmann)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario
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 Here's the relevant bits from my .kshrc, which result in a prompt of
the form
	<user>:<terminal> <command #> <'>' or '#' if I'm root>
(eg "cks:w1 71 > " or "root:w1 1 # ")

	uid=`id | sed 's/uid=[0-9]*(//
		       s/).*//'`
	ttyp=`tty | sed 's;/dev/;;'`
	case $uid in
		root) prompter="#";;
		*) prompter=">";;
	esac
	PS1="$uid:$ttyp ! $prompter "

 Ah, the things one can do in ksh. Anyone want an emulation of the BSD
csh pushd/popd commands?

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	 you're standing there, yes he WAS!"
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