Re: OpenBSD csh-like prompt for bash and ksh

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:51:43AM +0000, A. Farber wrote:

> to create a prompt for bash and ksh equivalent to the

Erm...why not just try it? A quick copy-and-paste from your email was all I needed to know that the ksh version works.

It's worth noting that the main reason the csh prompt has the history number is that csh lets you repeat command lines by referring to that number. In ksh, I doubt that number will tell you more than how many times you've pressed <enter>. Instead, you use arrow keys or, as I prefer, vi-style editing. Much nicer to hit <esc>/foo than to try to do mental gymnastics to figure out which line had foo on it. (csh afficionados will probably want to chime in with how superior it is to Bourne derivitaves. To each his own.)

The manual pages for the shells will tell you all this and more. If you haven't read the manual page for your favorite shell, you're missing out on a *lot* of good information. After all, it's the one program you use more than any other.

A bit of Googling will get you all sorts of interesting .profile, .chsrc, etc. files. Mine can be found here:

    http://www.trumpetpower.com/pub/.profile

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