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From: sivesh@rebels.ingr.com (sivesh pradhaan)
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Subject: Re: How to change prompt in ksh??
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Date: 11 Dec 90 20:07:07 GMT
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In article <2423@sparko.gwu.edu>, fc173108@seas.gwu.edu (Iqbal Qazi) writes:
|> My prompt is now:
|> 
|> fc173108@sparko:xxx:
|>    ^^^     ^^^  ^^^
|>     |       |    |
|> account  machine line#
|> 
|> and I would rather have my path shown, or the time, or just something else.
|> 
|> I mean, I know which account I'm in, and what machine I'm on.  I think
|> I need to stick something in my .kshrc file but I don't know what.



put PS1="what_ever_you_want_your_prompt_to_be" in your .profile

-Sivesh