On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 14:50, Peramslist wrote: > Hi, > > I'm need to display the PS1 envronmental variable through a script on my RH9 box. When I key in "echo $PS1" in the script I just get a blank but when I key in the same at the prompt I get the result. > I'd appreciate if you can let me know how I can display the variable as I did a google search but in vain. > Thanks in advance for all your replies. > bash behaves differently if invoked from a script. it is not an interactive shell at that point and /etc/profile is not called. check out man bash and search for PS1 What is it that you need to prompt for? perhaps you can get the info differently. You might be able to invoke bash differently or hell. call /etc/profile and see if that does it. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
