mgphl@msa3b.UUCP (Michael Phillips) (04/12/91)
Trying to set up AIX on a PS/2 & have users that want their command
prompt to show their current directory (aka: $P$G in **DOS).
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael G. Phillips | Dun & Bradstreet Software, Inc
(404)239-2766 | {...}!gatech!nanovx!msa3b!mgphldavec@shared.uucp (Dave Close) (04/13/91)
In article <1599@msa3b.UUCP> mgphl@msa3b.UUCP (Michael Phillips) writes: >Trying to set up AIX on a PS/2 & have users that want their command >prompt to show their current directory (aka: $P$G in **DOS). If you are using an xterm, either SVr4 or aixterm, the following might also be of use. It doesn't make your prompt so verbose and is always present. If installed in the ENV file for ksh of all users, the display even changes properly when you use 'su'. _cd () { unalias cd cd ${@} alias cd=_cd if [ "$(whoami)" = "root" ] ; then pmt=\# else pmt=\$ fi export PS1="^[]0;$(hostname -s):$(whoami) ${PWD}^G${pmt} " } [ "${TERM}" = "aixterm" -o "${TERM}" = "xterm" ] && { alias cd=_cd typeset -fx _cd if [ "$(whoami)" = "root" ] ; then pmt=\# else pmt=\$ fi PS1="^[]0;$(hostname -s):$(whoami) ${PWD}^G${pmt} " export PS1 } Note, replace the ^[ and ^G with actual escape and bell characters. There are trailing spaces on the lines with pmt=. -- Dave Close Shared Financial Systems Dallas davec@shared.com vmail +1 214 458 3850 uunet!shared!davec fax +1 214 458 3876 My comments are my opinions and may not be shared by Shared.
ed@bee.austin.ibm.com (Ed Holley) (04/15/91)
Under the ksh, you can use
PS1='${PWD}> '
To get the equivalent of $p$g in dos.
In article <1991Apr13.025012.13451@shared.uucp>, davec@shared.uucp (Dave
Close) writes:
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> From: davec@shared.uucp (Dave Close)
> Subject: Re: How To: set PS1 to show users "current" directory?
> Keywords: AIX
> Organization: Shared Financial Systems, Dallas, TX
>
> In article <1599@msa3b.UUCP> mgphl@msa3b.UUCP (Michael Phillips) writes:
> >Trying to set up AIX on a PS/2 & have users that want their command
> >prompt to show their current directory (aka: $P$G in **DOS).
disclaimer: all views expressed are mine, not my employers.
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ed@bee.austin.ibm.com (Ed Holley) writes:
Ed> Under the ksh, you can use
Ed> PS1='${PWD}> '
Which presupposes you have ksh for the PS/2... We didn't ship it with
AIX PS/2 or AIX/RT, did we?
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In csh .login I use: cd alias cd 'cd \!*; set prompt="$cwd :"' JANET: law@uk.ac.lon.ioe | Lindsay Wakeman EARN/BITNET: law%ioe.lon.ac.uk@ukacrl.bitnet | Institute of Education INTERNET:law%ioe.lon.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | 20 Bedford Way London WC1H OAL UUCP: !mcvax!ukc!educ-isis!law | VOICE +44 71 636 1500 ext.512 -- JANET: law@uk.ac.lon.ioe | Lindsay Wakeman EARN/BITNET: law%ioe.lon.ac.uk@ukacrl.bitnet | Institute of Education INTERNET:law%ioe.lon.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk | 20 Bedford Way London WC1H OAL UUCP: !mcvax!ukc!educ-isis!law | VOICE +44 71 636 1500 ext.512
eclarke@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Eric S. Clarke) (04/17/91)
In article <1991Apr13.025012.13451@shared.uucp>, davec@shared.uucp (Dave Close) writes: |> In article <1599@msa3b.UUCP> mgphl@msa3b.UUCP (Michael Phillips) |> writes: |> >Trying to set up AIX on a PS/2 & have users that want their command |> >prompt to show their current directory (aka: $P$G in **DOS). |> |> If you are using an xterm, either SVr4 or aixterm, the following |> might |> also be of use. It doesn't make your prompt so verbose and is |> always |> present. |> |> _cd () { |> unalias cd |> cd ${@} |> alias cd=_cd |> if [ "$(whoami)" = "root" ] ; then |> pmt=\# |> else |> pmt=\$ |> fi |> export PS1="^[]0;$(hostname -s):$(whoami) ${PWD}^G${pmt} " |> } |> [ "${TERM}" = "aixterm" -o "${TERM}" = "xterm" ] && { |> alias cd=_cd |> typeset -fx _cd |> if [ "$(whoami)" = "root" ] ; then |> pmt=\# |> else |> pmt=\$ |> fi |> PS1="^[]0;$(hostname -s):$(whoami) ${PWD}^G${pmt} " |> export PS1 |> } |> |> Note, replace the ^[ and ^G with actual escape and bell characters. Here are a couple of things to consider. First, since the Korn shell reevaluates PS1 every time before displaying a new prompt there is no need to alias cd. This can be made as simple as setting the value of PS1. Since this is also probably the same env file that gets executed if you use dialup lines, (That is when X is not useable) check to see if you have an xterm or aixterm. If you don't set the value of PS1 to display on the command line. If you do set similarly to the above example. There are a few differences that I would like to point out. If you change ^[]0 to ^[]1 you can control the icon string and then if you change it to ^[]2 you can control the title string. By puting both of these in your prompt you can seperatly control the name in the title and the icon. The next issue deals with command line editing in the Korn shell. The shell determines where to scroll the command line based on the width of the window less the number of characters in the prompt. This means that if you just put a long PWD path and other misc. stuff in your title bar, the command line starts to scroll long before it reaches the right margin. You can fake out the Korn shell by sending it an ^[[A. This effectively restarts the count on the length of the prompt. So putting it all togeather (Assuming that the various variables are already set: case "${TERM}" in *xterm) export PS1='^[]1;${HOSTNAME}^G^[]2;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}:${PWD}^G^[[A(!) $ ' ;; *) export PS1='${USER}@${HOSTNAME}:${PWD} (!) $ ' esac When this is displayed in your env file everything past ^[[A will be displayed on the next line. As noted above ^[ = escape and ^G = control G (or Bell). If you wish you can change the $ at the end of the prompt to be a variable to indicate that the user is the root user. -- Eric S. Clarke INTERNET: eclarke@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com 1510 Page Mill Road UUCP: uunet!ibmsupt!eclarke Palo Alto, CA 94304 IBM VNET: ECLARKE at AUSVMQ 415-855-4458 T/L: 465-4458
wolf@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel) (04/17/91)
Ed> Under the ksh, you can use
Ed> PS1='${PWD}> '
Under csh this could be:
alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt="`env LOGNAME`@`hostname`:$cwd> "'
Could be added to the FAQ... Don't move I'll send it to the person who proposed
to maintain the FAQ database.
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France | "passerait bien."rol@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Paul Rolland) (04/17/91)
In article <1991Apr16.093733.19362@ioe.lon.ac.uk> law@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Lindsay Wakeman) writes: > >In csh .login I use: > > cd > alias cd 'cd \!*; set prompt="$cwd :"' > That works fine, but I'd like to have the working directory relative to my HOME directory. That's is : my HOME is /u/rol. If I'm in /u/rol/tmp/c, I'd like to have the prompt being tmp/c, or even better, HOME/tmp/c when I'm in /u/rol/tmp/c and /u when I'm in /u... How can I do that ? Paul. Paul Rolland, engineer [I hope :)] in July 91, Specialist of assembly on PC [Not too bad in fact :)], Trying to progress on Unix administration Email : rol@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr
looi@sutro.SFSU.EDU (W. W. Looi) (04/18/91)
In article <1991Apr17.144920.17478@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr> rol@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Paul Rolland) writes: >In article <1991Apr16.093733.19362@ioe.lon.ac.uk> law@ioe.lon.ac.uk (Lindsay Wakeman) writes: >> >>In csh .login I use: >> >> cd >> alias cd 'cd \!*; set prompt="$cwd :"' >> > That works fine, but I'd like to have the working directory relative >to my HOME directory. That's is : my HOME is /u/rol. If I'm in /u/rol/tmp/c, >I'd like to have the prompt being tmp/c, or even better, HOME/tmp/c when I'm >in /u/rol/tmp/c and /u when I'm in /u... > How can I do that ? > > Paul. > I can deliver what you ask for if you can convince us the justification for relative directory instead of absolute directory... :-) ttfn - looi
mgphl@msa3b.UUCP (Michael Phillips) (04/20/91)
Just a quick Thank You to every one that responded to my query. The *real* problem, however, is that AIX (for the PS/2) does NOT include Korn shell.... oh well... maybe the "users" will learn how to pwd before they do something silly.... Thanks again, Michael
martelli@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli) (04/26/91)
rol@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Paul Rolland) writes: ... : That works fine, but I'd like to have the working directory relative :to my HOME directory. That's is : my HOME is /u/rol. If I'm in /u/rol/tmp/c, :I'd like to have the prompt being tmp/c, or even better, HOME/tmp/c when I'm :in /u/rol/tmp/c and /u when I'm in /u... This is my approach in ksh (in the file that's in envir. var ENV): ---start cut: tradir() { echo $* | sed -e 's,^'$HOME',~,' -f $HOME/.dirsed } dirnam() { if [ -r .dirnam ] then cat .dirnam else tradir $PWD fi } setpro() { export PS1="${LOGNAME}_$THOST `dirnam` [!] " } mycd() { 'cd' $*; setpro } alias cd=mycd ---end cut and in $HOME/.dirsed, I have: ---start cut s,^/\([a-z0-9]*\)root/,\1:, ---end cut That's a bit elaborate, but I like it! If a directory contains a file named .dirnam, then the contents of that file are to be displayed as the name of the directory; else, a leading instance of the user's home directory, if any, is translated to tilde, then sed is passed a user's personalized editing script for directories-in-prompt, which in my case just translates 'root' into ':' if the leading directory is a child of / and its name ends with 'root' (that's because we nfs-mount pippo:/ as /pipporoot...). setpro is a separate shell function because it can be used not only after a cd but also after a push-directory, pop-directory, etc. I'm not using the ksh's option to just expand a variable such as ${PWD} in the prompt, because I want to do (potentially) rather sophisticated editing, which can be a bit costly, and I want to pay that cost only at a cd rather than over and over again! -- Alex Martelli - CAD.LAB s.p.a., v. Stalingrado 53, Bologna, Italia Email: (work:) martelli@cadlab.sublink.org, (home:) alex@am.sublink.org Phone: (work:) ++39 (51) 371099, (home:) ++39 (51) 250434; Fax: ++39 (51) 366964 (work only), Fidonet: 332/401.3 (home only).