On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 06:42:42PM -0400, Karl Vogel wrote:
> If you're running bash, the safest way to find your current working
> directory is capturing the output from /bin/pwd. Symlinked directories
> can surprise you:
>
> me$ cd
>
> me$ ls -ldF today
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 me mis 18
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 12:09:57PM -0400, Tom Browder wrote:
> Excellent mind-reading, Greg! So to use your line I will put in that dir:
> "cd /required-dir || exit"
>
> Thanks so much. And thanks to all others who responded.
If you're running bash, the safest way to find your current workin
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 01:54:41PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 10:42 wrote:
[...]
> > Basically it is not possible to find out [...]
> As I think I replied earier, I am now checking the script is in the
> required directory in order to be executed (by the root user) [...
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 10:42 wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 04:45:54PM +0200, DdB wrote:
> > Am 26.08.2023 um 16:25 schrieb Tom Browder:
> > > Is there a way to distinguish whether 'sudo -i' was used or not?
> > >
> > Sorry, i am not an expert on this. But ... since years i am using this
> > t
* On 2023 26 Aug 11:10 -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 10:57 Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 10:49:45AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> > > I would like to know whether 'sudo -i' or 'sudo -s' was used.
>
> ...
>
> > In fact, I suspect "I need to know if the cw
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 11:56:27AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 10:49:45AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> > I would like to know whether 'sudo -i' or 'sudo -s' was used.
>
> That's STILL an X-Y problem.
>
> > The reason is
> > to know if the cwd is set to '/root' or '.' It's
On 26 Aug 2023 11:56 -0400, from g...@wooledge.org (Greg Wooledge):
> You don't actually need to know what was typed.
And even being able to answer the question "how was sudo executed"
doesn't solve the problem of ensuring that the script is executing
within a particular directory. All it takes is
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 10:57 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 10:49:45AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> > I would like to know whether 'sudo -i' or 'sudo -s' was used.
...
> In fact, I suspect "I need to know if the cwd is /root" is STILL an X-Y
> problem. It's sounding like "I nee
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 10:49:45AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> I would like to know whether 'sudo -i' or 'sudo -s' was used.
That's STILL an X-Y problem.
> The reason is
> to know if the cwd is set to '/root' or '.' It's critical for the script
> execution
Oh? Then just look at the current work
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 09:32 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 09:25:10AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> >In a previous thread it was shown how to detect a SUDO_USER in a bash
> >shell.
> >Is there a way to distinguish whether 'sudo -i'
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 04:45:54PM +0200, DdB wrote:
> Am 26.08.2023 um 16:25 schrieb Tom Browder:
> > Is there a way to distinguish whether 'sudo -i' was used or not?
> >
> Sorry, i am not an expert on this. But ... since years i am using this
> to check for it:
>
> > # if `echo $HOME` is not "/
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 09:25:10AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> In a previous thread it was shown how to detect a SUDO_USER in a bash shell.
>
> Is there a way to distinguish whether 'sudo -i' was used or not?
I have not tested this but if bash was interactive you will find a
Am 26.08.2023 um 16:25 schrieb Tom Browder:
> Is there a way to distinguish whether 'sudo -i' was used or not?
>
Sorry, i am not an expert on this. But ... since years i am using this
to check for it:
> # if `echo $HOME` is not "/root" or the working dir (pwd) is not "/root",
> then this was not
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 09:25:10AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
>In a previous thread it was shown how to detect a SUDO_USER in a bash
> shell.
>Is there a way to distinguish whether 'sudo -i' was used or not?
>Thanks.
>-Tom
The SUDO_COMMAND environment v
In a previous thread it was shown how to detect a SUDO_USER in a bash shell.
Is there a way to distinguish whether 'sudo -i' was used or not?
Thanks.
-Tom
* On 2020 08 Jul 08:38 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> There are lots of choices here. And this is with only the login shell
> layer involved -- no X11 or Wayland.
Good points and it must be emphasized that ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile
are for *login* shells only. Ordinarily shells started from a
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 07:53:53AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> https://noah.meyerhans.us/2020/07/07/setting-environment-variables-for-gnome-session/
> As I read it, where an environment variable should be set depends on the
> intended scope of the variable. One comment in response to the blog
>
* On 2020 07 Jul 08:58 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> The Subject line is the problem with my Debian Buster platform. Now from
> Google I see that there has been a change in the way Debian handles this
> problem.
>
> My user path statement is:
>
> comp@AbNormal:~$ echo $PATH
> /usr/local/bin:/
lay manager login, though.
>
> With a DM login, you have a bunch of sh scripts (which aren't even login
> shells) that can export variables but *not* functions. You don't get
> a bash shell until you actually open a terminal.
>
> None of your shell's dot files are us
ith the intent to make them available in all of your future
xterms *will* work from here.
They *won't* work from a display manager login, though.
With a DM login, you have a bunch of sh scripts (which aren't even login
shells) that can export variables but *not* functions. You don't
On Mi, 08 iul 20, 10:44:39, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>
> - so try somewhere in the session startup apps - nope, courdn't
> figure it out at least
For Debian you want ~/.xsessionrc
Kind regards,
Andrei
--
http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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On Mi, 08 iul 20, 09:59:52, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:29:47AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >
> > $HOME/bin is placed into the user's default PATH by Debian's ~/.profile
> > (the one in /etc/skel/.profile) if it exists at the time the ~/.profile
> > is read, if the ~/.pro
On Tue 07 Jul 2020 at 20:20:11 (-0400), Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 09:59:52AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:29:47AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:17:37PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jul 07, 202
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:16:21AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Gods, I am so tired of this question and having to repeat my demands
> for BASIC information over and over.
>
> Here are some resources for those of you who refuse to reveal any of
> the necessary background information to get answe
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 09:59:52AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:29:47AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:17:37PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 04:14:16PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> > > > cd ~/bin
> > > > ln -
Ahh, asked too soon. Thanks Greg.
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:16:21AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 09:57:34AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> > The Subject line is the problem
>
> Yeah. The Subject: line reveals the problem: you believe that PATH is
> set primarily by
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:29:47AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:17:37PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 04:14:16PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> > > cd ~/bin
> > > ln -s ../opt/something/bin/something
> >
> > Not in the default PATH either.
>
Jonathan Dowland (12020-07-07):
> Not in the default PATH either.
No, but probably one of the first things anybody who has non-elementary
use will have configured anyway.
Regards,
--
Nicolas George
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On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:17:37PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 04:14:16PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> > cd ~/bin
> > ln -s ../opt/something/bin/something
>
> Not in the default PATH either.
$HOME/bin is placed into the user's default PATH by Debian's ~/.profile
(th
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 04:14:16PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
cd ~/bin
ln -s ../opt/something/bin/something
Not in the default PATH either.
--
👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland
✎j...@debian.org
🔗 https://jmtd.net
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 09:57:34AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> The Subject line is the problem
Yeah. The Subject: line reveals the problem: you believe that PATH is
set primarily by your shell.
It's not. It's set primarily by your method of login, and then by your
session tools, whether t
Roberto C. Sánchez (12020-07-07):
> You should add the export command to ~/.bashrc (for it to only be in
> effect for that user)
Except ~/.bashrc is only sourced for interactive shells, it will not be
run when applications are executed by a GUI, for example.
(Also, for some reason, the bash autho
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 09:57:34AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> The Subject line is the problem with my Debian Buster platform. Now from
> Google I see that there has been a change in the way Debian handles this
> problem.
>
I'm not sure what change you are referring to, but from what you
des
The Subject line is the problem with my Debian Buster platform. Now from
Google I see that there has been a change in the way Debian handles this
problem.
My user path statement is:
comp@AbNormal:~$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
Now I have a number of app
Hi,
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2015-07/msg00125.html
which states
$ test -n '<' -a true
-bash: test: too many arguments
This looks rather like the effect of having an operator named '<':
$ test 1 '<' 2 && echo yes
yes
$ test 3 '<' 2 && echo yes
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 05:05:08PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Do not use -o and -a in a test command.
> > http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#pf6
>
> As if anybody would dare to touch the old "test" command. :))
>
> Rather i avoid "[" brackets, not to allow any im
Hi,
i wrote:
> > if you cannot find a dash tutorial then get a tutorial for bash or sh and
> > test in dash whether the proposals apply properly.
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> First, there are more bad tutorials out there in the wild than good
> tutorials, by at least one order of magnitude.
But the c
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:07:14AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> if you cannot find a dash tutorial then get a tutorial for bash or sh and
> test in dash whether the proposals apply properly.
This is potentially bad advice, for several reasons.
First, there are more bad tutorials out there in t
Hi,
for a moment, my fingers were faster than my brain.
I wrote:
> The "test" expression used is "A = B". There are operators like "-o" for
> logical "or". "A -o B" is true if a is true, or if be is true, or both are
> true.
Translation via brain:
The "test" expression used is
"`hostname`" =
Hi,
if you cannot find a dash tutorial then get a tutorial for bash or sh and
test in dash whether the proposals apply properly.
(You can reach dash in dialog by typing "dash" into a bash window.)
Bash and dash both stem from S.R.Bourne's sh. The shell chapters of
his book "The Unix System" from
t;> I need for the case when evaluates to marybobsam .
>>> I can find examples in bash shell, but I need dash.
>>
>> Are you asking how to check for the substring "bob" in your input,
>> in POSIX sh? Use case, and a glob:
>>
>> case $input i
need for the case when evaluates to marybobsam .
>>> I can find examples in bash shell, but I need dash.
>>
>> Are you asking how to check for the substring "bob" in your input,
>> in POSIX sh? Use case, and a glob:
>>
>> case $input in
>>
On 9/26/2016 10:42 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:39:59AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
# string if [ "`hostname`" = bob ]; then echo bob.cfg; fi
I need for the case when evaluates to marybobsam .
I can find examples in bash shell, but I need dash.
Are you
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:39:59AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> # string if [ "`hostname`" = bob ]; then echo bob.cfg; fi
>
> I need for the case when evaluates to marybobsam .
> I can find examples in bash shell, but I need dash.
Are you asking how to check for
then echo bob.cfg; fi
I need for the case when evaluates to marybobsam .
I can find examples in bash shell, but I need dash.
Are there equivalents of
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html
or
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/Bash-Beginners-Guide.html
BUT for dash *NOT* bash?
TIA
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On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:32:47AM +0200, Die Optimisten wrote:
> Hello
>
> echo hello!# displays that, BUT:
> echo "Hello!" # tells:
> -su: !": event not found# this worked years before without problem!
> Is that intended? These leads to
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On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:20:23AM +0200, Die Optimisten wrote:
> On 2016-05-10 11:18, Die Optimisten wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >How can I escape a ' inside '...'
> >e.g. perl -e 'print '$ and a' '# I don't want to use "
The short answer is... you can't
Hi,
It is the historical part of C shell, you can disable it typing or adding
it to your profile :
set +H
Regards,
Jonathan
Le 10 mai 2016 11:48 AM, "Die Optimisten" a
écrit :
Hello
echo hello!# displays that, BUT:
echo "Hello!" # tells:
-su: !": event not found# this worked years
Hello
echo hello!# displays that, BUT:
echo "Hello!" # tells:
-su: !": event not found# this worked years before without problem!
Is that intended? These leads to errors in many scripts (including
installig package dkms)
How can this be turned off? For me this behaviou should be cha
On 2016-05-10 11:18, Die Optimisten wrote:
Hi,
How can I escape a ' inside '...'
e.g. perl -e 'print '$ and a' '# I don't want to use "
thank you
Andrew
I have to add, its bash - specific
and PLEASE also CC: me using inform (AT) die-optimisten.net
I'm not subscribed here
THANKs
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 10:33:02AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> Which raises the question - what if the expansion contains double quote
> chars? Perhaps using double-backslash (or quad??) would do the trick?
You mean like this?:
$ FOO='foo "more foo" bar'
$ echo "$FOO"
foo "more foo" bar
This
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 10:27, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> Does anyone know why the following works:
>
> #!/bin/sh -x
> FONT=-jmk-neep\ alt-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-100-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15
> xterm -sl $BUFFER -fn $FONT -geometry 87x96+447+26
Sorry, the last line above should be:
xterm -sl $BUFFER -f
Does anyone know why the following works:
#!/bin/sh -x
FONT=-jmk-neep\ alt-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-100-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15
xterm -sl $BUFFER -fn $FONT -geometry 87x96+447+26
But neither of the following work:
#!/bin/sh -x
FONT="-jmk-neep alt-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-100-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15"
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-30 20:51:17 -0500]:
> Thanks to Nate's help, I found the problem. I had another line above
> this one with a similar echo'd line that had an
> apostrophe. Apparently bash was interpreting everything between the
> two apostrophe's as a string, which explains s
Kent West wrote:
> nate wrote:
>
> > Kent West said:
> > > I'm trying to use the following in a bash shell script:
> > >
> > > echo This machine's name and IP address
> > > cat /etc/hosts | grep $HOSTNAME
> >
> > try
nate wrote:
> Kent West said:
> > I'm trying to use the following in a bash shell script:
> >
> > echo This machine's name and IP address
> > cat /etc/hosts | grep $HOSTNAME
>
> try enclosing the line in quotes:
>
> echo "This machine's
Kent West said:
> I'm trying to use the following in a bash shell script:
>
> echo This machine's name and IP address
> cat /etc/hosts | grep $HOSTNAME
try enclosing the line in quotes:
echo "This machine's IP address"
seems to work for me
nate
I'm trying to use the following in a bash shell script:
echo This machine's name and IP address
cat /etc/hosts | grep $HOSTNAME
but the echo'd line doesn't print the apostrophe. I've tried several
variations, and from what I've read in man bash and on the web, i
On 05-Oct-2000 XEN O wrote:
> I am currently running a red hat derivative linux and an looking to change to
> debian (as reports speak highly of it). However, it seems from looking at
> the list of shells packaged with debian it does not come with the bash shell
> - it this righ
%% XEN O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
xo> I am currently running a red hat derivative linux and an looking
xo> to change to debian (as reports speak highly of it). However, it
xo> seems from looking at the list of shells packaged with debian it
xo> does not come with t
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 10:39:34AM -0700, XEN O wrote:
> I am currently running a red hat derivative linux and an looking to change to
> debian (as reports speak highly of it). However, it seems from looking at
> the list of shells packaged with debian it does not come with the b
Bash is the default shell.
XEN O wrote:
>
> I am currently running a red hat derivative linux and an looking to change to
> debian (as reports speak highly of it). However, it seems from looking at
> the list of shells packaged with debian it does not come with the bash shell
I am currently running a red hat derivative linux and an looking to change to
debian (as reports speak highly of it). However, it seems from looking at the
list of shells packaged with debian it does not come with the bash shell - it
this right ??
If this is not the correct place to ask this
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:08:55PM -0500, Michael Merten wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:08:20PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> >
> > > I have a file named :
> > >
> > > ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~
> > >
> > > ..
* Michael Merten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It does look like escape sequences, but what key would produce ?[4~
> ... the closest I can find is PgDn which produces ^[[4~. Is there
> a table/chart/listing of these somewhere for a linux term?
console_codes(4), but I don´t know how the codes men
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:08:20PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
>
> > I have a file named :
> >
> > ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~
> >
> > ... in my home directory.
> >
> > I am wondering how to escape this properly for
This worked. I feel silly... that was TOO simple.
Thanks Shao.
p.s. Using single-quotes didn't work, unless I misread and it was supposed
to be single-backquotes?
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Shao Zhang wrote:
> have you tried
>
> rm ./?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~
>
>
> On Wed, Au
Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a file named :
>
> ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~
>
> ... in my home directory.
>
> I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in
> bash.
bash will properly escape it if you use file-name completion. Thus if
yo
Quoting Alex Shnitman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
>
> > I have a file named :
> >
> > ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~
> >
> > ... in my home directory.
> >
> > I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> I have a file named :
>
> ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~
>
> ... in my home directory.
>
> I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in
> bash.
Most people told you to rm ./file or rm 'file' but
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> I have a file named :
>
> ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~
>
> ... in my home directory.
>
> I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in
> bash.
>
> Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but
have you tried
rm ./?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> I have a file named :
>
> ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~
>
> ... in my home directory.
>
> I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work o
Nate Duehr wrote:
I have a file named :
?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~
... in my home directory.
I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in
bash.
Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list
it as showing up in the directory, so it obv
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> I have a file named :
>
> ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~
>
> ... in my home directory.
>
> I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in
> bash.
>
>
For this one, I'd just enclose the filename in
Nate Duehr wrote:
>
> I have a file named :
>
> ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~
>
> ... in my home directory.
>
have you tried 'rm ./FILE'? There are several ways to delete
files with weird filenames.
There was a thread on it last month. Take a look at:
http://www.debian.org/L
I have a file named :
?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~
... in my home directory.
I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in
bash.
Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list
it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't
[...]
> .bashrc only gets read for subshells. .bash_profile always get read no
> matter what. You can also source .bashrc from .bash_profile and you can
> forget about order. -marlon
Not true. The file ~/.bash_profile is sourced only in interactive _login_
shells. If you rea
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
>
> > My guess was that the .bashrc in my home directory needed the
> > same PS1 environment as the .bashrc in the root directory so I
> > added
> >
> > export PS1='\h:\w\$ '
> >
> > but this does not solve the problem UNLESS I login as myself and
>
To everyone who has replied to my question.
Thanks I have my prompt as I want it, I also now understand some of the
bash man information.
I also just wanted to check that my new netscape 4.06 is working.
Dave
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Julian Gilbey wrote:
: > Hi,
: >
: > On Hamm, if I login as root or while logged in as myself do a "su"
: > then my shell prompt shows the host and current directory.
: >
: > When I am logged in as myself my prompt is just a $
: >
: > I much prefer to see the curren
> Hi,
>
> On Hamm, if I login as root or while logged in as myself do a "su"
> then my shell prompt shows the host and current directory.
>
> When I am logged in as myself my prompt is just a $
>
> I much prefer to see the current directory in my prompt. So how do
> I change it?
>
> My guess
> My guess was that the .bashrc in my home directory needed the
> same PS1 environment as the .bashrc in the root directory so I
> added
>
> export PS1='\h:\w\$ '
>
> but this does not solve the problem UNLESS I login as myself and
> then type
>
> bash
>
> at which point the prompt change
Hi,
On Hamm, if I login as root or while logged in as myself do a "su"
then my shell prompt shows the host and current directory.
When I am logged in as myself my prompt is just a $
I much prefer to see the current directory in my prompt. So how do
I change it?
My guess was that the .bashrc i
David Stern wrote:
[snip]
> > You should use '#!/bin/bash' really, because now sh is just a link
> > to bash, but you are not guaranteed that in a future version it will
> > be another shell, or that bash _will_ act more (dumb) Bourne like in
> > the future when called as 'sh' (I for one would app
On Fri, 09 Jan 1998 23:01:54 +0100, "Rob S. Wolfram" wrote:
> David Stern wrote:
>>[..]
> news://comp.unix.shell
I know now.
> > 1.) How do I insert a newline character in a "double-quoted" string?
> If you mean "when using bash's built-in echo command", use
> echo -e "Test\nMoreText"
I'll use
David Stern wrote:
> I know this isn't a bash shell script news group, but the fact is I
> can't find one. Since bash is the default linux shell, I was hoping
news://comp.unix.shell
> someone could answer a few pretty simple questions.
>
> 1.) How do I insert a newli
On Wed, 07 Jan 1998 21:27:01 +1030, John Spence wrote:
> > I know this isn't a bash shell script news group, but the fact is I
> > can't find one. Since bash is the default linux shell, I was hoping
> > someone could answer a few pretty simple questions.
>
> H
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, David Stern wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know this isn't a bash shell script news group, but the fact is I
> can't find one. Since bash is the default linux shell, I was hoping
> someone could answer a few pretty simple questions.
>
> 1.) How do I
> I know this isn't a bash shell script news group, but the fact is I
> can't find one. Since bash is the default linux shell, I was hoping
> someone could answer a few pretty simple questions.
Hi David.
Try this link for an intro to Bourne shell scripts.
http://riceinf
Hi,
I know this isn't a bash shell script news group, but the fact is I
can't find one. Since bash is the default linux shell, I was hoping
someone could answer a few pretty simple questions.
1.) How do I insert a newline character in a "double-quoted" string?
2.) What
On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
>
> > > 1. ftp is still missing from the base install set. This makes it
> > > difficult to install a custom compiled kernel. Actually impossible
> > > if you don't have your kernel available on an nf
On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
> i've had the dubious pleasure of running into the same problem on
> a variety of machines (mainly because the hardware supplier seems
> completely unable to provide the same motherboards in each new batch of
> machines). 486 motherboards are starting to
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
> > 1. ftp is still missing from the base install set. This makes it
> > difficult to install a custom compiled kernel. Actually impossible
> > if you don't have your kernel available on an nfs mount or floppy
> > disk.
>
> Don't know what yo
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> > > MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a machine
> > > to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master boot record.
> >
> > Can you figure out why?
>
> What BIOS do
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
> this fixes most of the problems i had with the 1996-12-7 set. I'm still
> having a few problems with the new disks:
>
> 1. ftp is still missing from the base install set. This makes it
> difficult to install a custom compiled kernel. Actually impos
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a
> > machine to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master
> > boot record.
>
> Can you figure out why?
no, the only thing remaining for me to try is to NOT use the Maximise
optio
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a machine
> > to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master boot record.
>
> Can you figure out why?
What BIOS do you have? (Brand and bios date) I think this may end up
being th
From: Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ftp is still missing from the base install set.
Might not get fixed in 1.2, I'm out of space.
> MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a machine
> to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master boot record.
Can you figure
y2.
- type:
cd /target
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/target/lib:/target/usr/lib"
./usr/sbin/chroot /target
this gets you a bash shell chrooted to /target. The environment is
very similar to what you'd get after booting - except that NONE of
the /etc/init.d/
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