A blank line before the unix prompt?

Ron Natalie ron at topaz.rutgers.edu
Wed Aug 10 00:45:42 AEST 1988


If you're using the real shell, then you can do

PS1=`promptprog`

where promptprog is a program that generates the new prompt.

For example

PS1=`cat << END_CAT
$
$
END_CAT`

Will double up dollar sign prompts.

-Ron



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