Can value of environmental var appear in prompt?

Philip Yzarn de Louraille yzarn at lhdsy1.chevron.com
Wed Jun 19 04:24:21 AEST 1991


In article <3406 at ria.ccs.uwo.ca> creider at csd.uwo.ca (Chet Creider) writes:
>How can one make the value of an environmental variable appear in a
>C-shell prompt? While using screen, I often become confused as to which
>window I'm in. Screen maintains an environmental variable WINDOW giving
>the number of the current window. Can this value be put into a prompt?

set prompt=`echo $WINDOW` 

But why would you want to do this? It looks *ugly* :-)

-- 
  Philip Yzarn de Louraille                 Internet: yzarn at chevron.com
  Research Support Division                 Unix & Open Systems
  Chevron Information & Technology Co.      Tel: (213) 694-9232
  P.O. Box 446, La Habra, CA 90633-0446     Fax: (213) 694-7709



More information about the Comp.unix.questions mailing list