From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Subject: [TUHS] shell PS1/PS2 which survive cut-paste
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 18:26:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CBC017EB-5377-452A-A0E5-479761E04BBC@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171206012824.GA20970@wopr>
> On Dec 5, 2017, at 5:28 PM, Kurt H Maier <khm at sciops.net> wrote:
>
> I've used :; and ::; to good effect. Since : is a no-op, it just inserts
> noise into the history.
This fragment lives in my ${HOME}/.env on pretty much every machine I log in to. If you 'export ENV=${HOME}/.env' in .profile, then configure sudo/doas to pass ENV through unmolested, this will follow you as you switch uids.
_hostname=$(hostname | sed -e 's/\.hushmail\(inc\)*\.com$//')
awd=$(which awd 2>/dev/null)
if [ "${awd}" == "" ] ; then
awd=':'
fi
setprompt () { PS1=": $(id -un)@$_hostname:$(pwd); " ; }
cd () { command cd "$@" && setprompt && ${awd} ; }
setprompt
It works with pretty much every Bourne/Korn shell variant I've stumbled across. Adjust the _hostname bit to match the domains of the systems you regularly log in to, and drop the awd bits if you don't use plan9port.
--lyndon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-06 2:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-06 1:22 George Michaelson
2017-12-06 1:28 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-12-06 2:26 ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2017-12-06 1:30 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-12-06 3:45 ` Grant Taylor
2017-12-06 5:53 ` arnold
2017-12-06 6:01 ` George Michaelson
2017-12-06 15:14 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-06 6:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-06 8:00 ` arnold
2017-12-06 23:57 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-07 8:33 ` arnold
2017-12-07 21:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-08 6:12 ` arnold
2017-12-07 21:54 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-08 0:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-16 17:42 ` Derek Fawcus
2017-12-17 13:12 ` Don Hopkins
[not found] <mailman.402.1512547277.9955.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-12-06 11:02 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-12-06 12:00 ` arnold
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