Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!spdcc!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!ilham From: ilham@athena.mit.edu (Ilhamuddin Ahmed) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: A blank line before the unix prompt? Keywords: prompt Message-ID: <6591@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 8 Aug 88 05:57:24 GMT References: <3809@okstate.UUCP> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: ilham@athena.mit.edu (Ilhamuddin Ahmed) Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 38 In article <3809@okstate.UUCP> Ashok writes > >Is it possible to make echo " " a part of the unix prompt? My objective >is to print a blank line before a prompt to improve clarity of the output >from the previous unix command. The example follows: > % > % ls > > % > % > >Will appreciate the response. Thanks! -- Ashok If you are using csh or tcsh then you can simply do this by adding the following in your .cshrc (or .tcshrc) or by manually typing it in [Ugh :-] set prompt = "% \ % " Please note that there is no space after the '\'. This way, you can have multiple-line prompts. - Ilham ============================================================================== \\\!/// From : Ilhamuddin Ahmed [MIT '91] _ _ UUCP : {backbone}!mit-eddie!athena!ilham ( Q Q ) Arpa : ilham@juicy-juice.lcs.mit.edu ---,,,,-------U-------,,,,--- USnail: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science 545 Technology Square, Room 213 HELLO!!! Cambridge, MA 02139. ----------------------------- Phone : (617)-253-3578 ==============================================================================