[COFF] What is your prompt?

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote in
 <20211225231941.GB83649 at eureka.lemis.com>:
 |On Friday, 24 December 2021 at 23:40:56 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
 |> Here are examples of some of my prompts.  It does use two lines, but
 |> the extra context is worth it to me:
 |>
 |> <tytso at cwcc> {/home/tytso}
 |> 267% cd /usr/projects/e2fsprogs/base
 |
 |That's actually surprisingly like mine, though I squeeze it into one
 |line.  Like you, I find user, system and cwd important, but also the
 |tty.  In addition I put a marker to help find prompts in long output,
 |so a typical prompt might be:
 |
 |  === grog at bilbo (/dev/pts/27) ~/src 6 -> 
 |
 |That's generated with
 |
 |  PS1="\[ESC[34m\]=== \u@\h (`tty`) \[ESC[31m\]\w\[ESC[34m\] \# ->\[ESC[30\
 |  m\]\[ESC[47m\] "
 |
 |> 272% su
 |> Password:
 |> <tytso.root at cwcc> {/home/tytso}, level 2
 |
 |That's interesting.  How do you do that?

Looks like bash(1)'s $SHLVL to me.
I always stumble over the OpenCSW.org ssh(1) logins, they set
ignoreeof by default.  That is how strange things go, in the shell
i hate that, in my mailer i have that and furthermore even

  commandalias q 'echo You do not want to quit, do you?'

and that happens several times a week.
I mean i have

      [ "${UID}" -eq 0 ] && PS1='#' || PS1='$'
      if ( [ "${HISTSIZE##84}" = 42 ] ) > /dev/null 2>&1; then
         # bash(1)/*ksh(1)?
         if [ -n "${___SHTYPE}" ] || [ -n "${PWD}" ]; then
            PS1="${ps1s}#?\$?${j}|${HOSTNAME%%.*}:\${PWD##*/}${PS1}${ps1e} "
         else
            PS1="${ps1s}#${j}${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${ps1W}${PS1}${ps1e} "
         fi
      else
         PS1="${ps1s}#${j}${HOSTNAME}${PS1}${ps1e} "
      fi
      PS2='> '
      export PS1 PS2

Where all the ps1* series was detected earlier, for colour, like

  ps1s="\[\e[31m\]" ps1S="\[\e[38;5;203m\]" ps1e="\[\e[0m\]"

for bash or

  eval "ps1s=\$'\e[31m' ps1S=\$'\e[38;5;203m' ps1e=\$'\e[0m'"

for mksh (to get around bugs it had sometime, and were fixed, some
get fixed by Thorsten), as well as

  ps1s="^[[31m" ps1S="^[[38;5;203m" ps1e="^[[0m" # XXX \e <> OpenBSD?$

and here ^[ is indeed the fully expanded \e for those ksh's which
cannot.  The $j is for shells not running in tmux, where i have
a status line with lots of infos, to get load average

  [ -f /proc/loadavg ] && j="(\$(cut -f1,4 -d' ' /proc/loadavg))"

I forgot busybox sh(1) in the listing.  ps1W is \W for FreeBSD and
DragonFly ash(1) things.  Hm.
Maybe i have to un-bitrot that by retesting against all shells
again, it has been years, and lots of programming happens.
I usually do "scp .* HOST:" whenever i get a HOST account, and
forget about it thereafter.

A nice rest-Christmas for all Christians, shall there be some left
which Jesus would not throw out of the temple, actually, that is.

:)

--steffen
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