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From: rogers@ofc.Columbia.NCR.COM (H. L. Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: A blank line before the unix prompt?
Keywords: prompt
Message-ID: <227@ofc.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 8 Aug 88 17:54:42 GMT
References: <3809@okstate.UUCP> <6591@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: hl.rogers@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (H. L. Rogers)
Organization: NCR Corp, E&M-Columbia, W Columbia, SC
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In article <6591@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> ilham@athena.mit.edu (Ilhamuddin Ahmed) writes:
>In article <3809@okstate.UUCP> Ashok writes 
>>
>>Is it possible to make echo " " a part of the unix prompt? My objective
>
>set prompt = "% \
>% "

For /bin/sh, put following in $HOME/.profile:

	PS1="
	prompt string"

Output will look like this:

	[output of ls command]

	prompt string
-- 
HL Rogers    (hl.rogers@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM)