From: bytehead@bp1742.UUCP (Bryan Price) Subject: Re: New questions (was: Help a linux newcomer please) Date: 2 Aug 1992 12:54:59 GMT
monkey@z.eecs.umich.edu (Xinbing Liu) writes:
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> 1. How do I set new path? In unix I do "set path = ($path /mypath)", but
> this does not seem to work here.
PATH=$PATH:/mypath
What shell are you running? Looks like to me, csh. bash is based on
the Korn shell (ksh). Looking at the man pages for ksh (or, if not
available Bourne shell would most likely answer some of the rougher
questions. Bourne shell knowledge is getting my by for now...)
> 2. How do I change the prompt? Again in unix it's "set prompt="myprompt" ",
> and this does not work either.
PS1='your prompt'
PS2='your continuation prompt'
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