A blank line before the unix prompt?

H. L. Rogers rogers at ofc.Columbia.NCR.COM
Tue Aug 9 03:54:42 AEST 1988


In article <6591 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> ilham at athena.mit.edu (Ilhamuddin Ahmed) writes:
>In article <3809 at okstate.UUCP> Ashok writes 
>>
>>Is it possible to make echo " " a part of the unix prompt? My objective
>
>set prompt = "% \
>% "

For /bin/sh, put following in $HOME/.profile:

	PS1="
	prompt string"

Output will look like this:

	[output of ls command]

	prompt string
-- 
HL Rogers    (hl.rogers at ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM)



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