Why do I have an equals sign at the end of my unix prompt? 1

[Chrissirhc]

I have this in my .mycshrc file I have

#ksh
setenv VISUAL vi
setenv PS1='$HOSTNAME'": "'$PWD'" > "
#setenv PS1='$USER'" on "`hostname`": "'$PWD'" > "
exec ksh -o vi

and my prompt looks like this

servername: /home/username > =

Why do I have an equals sign at the end??

Thanks,

Chris

 

[comtec17]

Are you sure this is in your ".mycshrc"? Shouldn't this be in the .profile since you are running ksh not csh? Just a thought.

 

[Chrissirhc]

When I log on to the server it automatically set my shell to csh but I updated .mycshrc so that it runs exec ksh -o vi which opens up a new shell within the old one.

One thing I don't get is that there is an = sign in my prompt and I can't see where I specified that.

 

[PHV]

Maybe in your $HOME/.profile or $ENV file ?

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[Chrissirhc]

I can't see any of those files in my local area.

 

[PHV]

What is the result of

 set | grep PS1

?

 

[Chrissirhc]

PS1='$HOSTNAME: $PWD > =' is the result, but I greped for PS1 on all .* files in the directory and they don't have this equals sign in it.

 

[PHV]

And in

 /etc/profile

?

 

[Chrissirhc]

Its not in there and furthermore this is a root owned file.

 

[Chrissirhc]

Is there any other file I could edit so that I don't get this unwanted "=" sign.

 

[PHV]

What happens if you try this in your .cshrc ?

setenv VISUAL vi
setenv PS1='${HOSTNAME}:${PWD}>'
exec ksh -o vi

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[Chrissirhc]

Thanks, however I still get the equals sign...

Any other suggestions?

 

[grega]

A bit of a guess here, but in csh you don't need an assignment operator when using setenv, so you should be doing

setenv VISUAL vi
setenv PS1 '${HOSTNAME}:${PWD}>'
exec ksh -o vi

Greg.

 

[Chrissirhc]

Hehe Greg as soon as I saw your response I felt like thats it and it was Thanks a lot.

 

[Chrissirhc]

Oh I posted something else about being able to use the delete key and backspace key to both act as delete. Is that possible and can I make that happen at start-up???

Thanks,

Chris

 

[grega]

As mentioned on the other forum, it depends on whether you're using a terminal emulator or not. I use the simple telnet tool shipped with windows. In my profile the line

stty erase ^H

does this for me. To get the ^H you do Ctrl-V Ctrl-H.

Greg.

 

[Chrissirhc]

Thanks,

How would I get both delete key and the backspace key to do the same thing in korn shell? And what file would I need to put it in to get it to work when I log on.

Thanks,

Chris

 

[PHV]

Just a thought:

setenv PS1='${HOSTNAME}:${PWD}>'
          ^

are you sure you need a equal sign here ?

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[Chrissirhc]

You are right. When I take the equals sign away it works. Its because with cshell you don't need it. Just like Greg mentioned.

In another post I asked about getting the delete and backspace key to both delete characters do you know how to do this?

When I type stty erase ^H the backspace key works, but the delete key gives ^?

Thanks in advance,

Chris

 

[grega]

stty erase ^H sets the backspace key to delete a char. stty erase ^? sets the delete key to delete a char. Using this method you can have one or the other, not both. Is this a causing a problem?