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Hi All,

I am using the tcsh shell as my default shell but sometimes I do work with
the bash shell. I tried to set the prompt so that it will display the
hostname, the history number of the command and the dollar symbol. In
order to do that, I typed the following command in both my .profile and
.login files: PS1="(\h)\!$". However, when I execute it the prompt changes
to (\h)\!$.

Could somebody please explain to me why this happens and how can I change
the prompt to get the effect I want?

Thanks in advance.

George

It worked for me.  Are you sure it is a bash shell?

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Quote:> Hi All,

> I am using the tcsh shell as my default shell but sometimes I do work with
> the bash shell. I tried to set the prompt so that it will display the
> hostname, the history number of the command and the dollar symbol. In
> order to do that, I typed the following command in both my .profile and
> .login files: PS1="(\h)\!$". However, when I execute it the prompt changes
> to (\h)\!$.

> Could somebody please explain to me why this happens and how can I change
> the prompt to get the effect I want?

> Thanks in advance.

> George

I tested it and PS1="(\h)\!$" dose work as designed. notice that you
say that "\h" in the final is not "h".  If this where bash it would
not parse it like that.  If $SHELL is indead bash then there is some
strange voodoo going on and i would recompile bash and see if you get
a differant result.

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