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From: devusr@relay-nswc.navy.mil
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: ksh prompt settings
Message-ID: <17835@adm.BRL.MIL>
Date: 16 Dec 88 14:52:15 GMT
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C Hudson Hendren III <hudson@vsedev.vse.com> writes:
>I would like to have an exclamation point ("!") in my Korn shell prompt. 

try this:
PS1=$(uname -n)'\\!'$(logname)'{\!} '

disclaimer: i don't have a ksh, but quoting the !'s thusly gives the desired
results in my csh. 

/dave
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Dave Paulson	dpaulso@relay-nswc.navy.mil	(703)663-2137
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