By default osx uses bash so you shouldn't have to check unless you've
messed with things.
Nice tip on the Postscript output from man and how to pipe it to preview.
CB
On 2/8/12 10:10 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote:
The prompt string is defined in the variable PS1 for the bourne shell. I
believe that bash (bourne again shell ) also uses this variable. Note: you
only need to set it, no need to export it to the environment.
First check to verify the shell you are running
echo$shell
then run a man page on the shell (if you want to get fancy , then code like the
below should bring up the man page in preview...
man -t bash | open -a preview -f
But then again, google can find man pages, and there is actually a option in Google
settings to indicate that you want a UNIX man page when you enter "man XXX" in
the google search bar.
Best wishes,
Jonathan C. Cohn
jonc...@cox.net
On Feb 8, 2012, at 8:54 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
Dear list,
I am learning to change the terminal prompt. It now includes my machine name
and my user name, which is what I want to get rid of. I think that the prompt
is contained in an environment variable. I found that I can look at them by
using env without parameters, and that works. However, prompt is not in here.
Where do I need to look, to find the placeholders string that gives me my
prompt?
Paul.
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