Re: how to make colour prompts for pdksh

[LeVA <leva@az.isten.hu>]

2006. July 27. 00:28, Derek Martin:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 09:47:39PM +0200, LeVA wrote:
> > > So either set konsole up to launch ksh as a login shell, or set
> > > ENV somewhere.  You can test this with:
> > >
> > > $ ENV="~/.profile" konsole
> > >
> > > Or launch konsole, and do:
> > > $ ksh -l
> >
> > The .profile is always gets parsed (both in a login and a non-login
> > shell).
>
> This is not correct, unless you have a line such as the following in
> your .profile:
>
>   export ENV=~/.profile
>
> However, your non-login shells will inherit exported variables from
> your login shell, so your prompts will still be set, etc.  This is
> the difference between variables that are exported and not exported.
>
> > When I start pdksh in a non-login shell, the .profile gets parsed,
> > and the PATH and every other env.var. gets set. Only the aliases
> > gets ignored, but why?
>
> Because you are mistaken...  the .profile does not get parsed.  The
> environment variables are being inherited from the parent shell.  if
> the .profile was being parsed, your aliases would be there too.
>
> > If I add the ENV="~/.kshrc" line to my .profile and my ~/.kshrc
> > contains my aliases, then I still can not see my aliases...
>
> You need to export ENV.  This can be done as I did above, or like
> this:
>
>   ENV=~/.profile; export ENV
>
> > The man says that "if the ENV parameter is set when the shell
> > starts" :) This is funny because I can set the ENV parameter in a
> > shell, and I can not set it before running the shell :)
>
> Yes you can... you can export it from a parent shell.
>
> > Something must be running already (eg. KDE) to be able to set up
> > the variable. I can put a file which contains 'ENV="~/.kshrc"' to
> > my ~/.kde/env/ and that gets sourced by kde startup, so the ENV
> > parameter will be set when I start konsole.  Wait a minute... that
> > is what I'm gonna do! :)
>
> And if you tried that, it didn't work either... because you didn't
> export ENV.
Okay okay I got it thanks! :D

Daniel


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LeVA