Hi.

I am trying to use my own command prompt for oss-xterm. As usually done, I created ~/.profile and included the following line:
Since the hostname command returns "Nokia-N800-26" and the pwd command returns "/home/user", the prompt should look like this:
However, every time I invoke oss-xterm, the prompt shows up like this:
Looks as if the commands aren't executed. The weird thing is, the hostname and pwd commands per se work just fine when invoked in oss-xterm. Only when embedded in ~/.profile do they have a problem.

Does anyone have a clue what I need to do to get this working?

TIA,
Dai

try single quotes ('), not back quotes (`), as linux has a thing with proper encapsulation in quotes. variable and command expansion is done in single quotes, and back quotes treat the string literally.

Remember the shell isn't bash either; it's busybox's ash.

Thanks for the reply.

I believe, however, but the command expansion is done by back quotes. The same syntax works just fine on my Fedora Core 6 box. In fact, the command works on the N800, too, if executed directly in the shell instead of from within a script. Go figure...

Hi.

That's true. I first tried ~/.bashrc, to no avail, and then found that the shell wasn't bash. I felt lucky when I found ~/.profile processed until I ran into this problem.

bash is available, I believe.

If not, it'd be trivial to port with mud.

Thanks for the info. I may give that a shot. At this moment, all I want is for the prompt to look the way I want it, not a full bash functionality.