Changing prompt in tcsh

guyafe · 11-15-2009, 03:49 AM

Hi,
I am trying to change the propmpt in tcsh in Redhat.
I did all the following:
In ~/.cshrc I added at the end of the file the new prompt.
Copied csh.cshrc and csh.login to ~/ and added the new prompt at the end of both of them.

I get the new prompt every time I open a terminal window, but the minute I am changing a directory, I get the old prompt again.
Can you tell me where else I should change the prompt?

Thanks
Guy Yafe

anomie · 11-15-2009, 02:29 PM

Which OS / version, exactly? ("Redhat" is not descriptive enough.)

First, check some tcsh prompt examples.

Next, read the tcsh(1) manpages for your OS / version, and confirm that ~/.cshrc is read at shell startup (as opposed to, say, ~/.tcshrc) -- and in what order.

guyafe · 11-18-2009, 02:59 AM

After printing /etc/issue
I got

Quote:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 2)

I couldn't find anything in the manual that could solve the problem.
I don't have ~/.tcshrc, only ~/.chrc. I tried changing the latter to .tcshrc, and also didn't work.

Guy

anomie · 11-18-2009, 06:12 PM

From the tcsh(1) manpages on a RHEL4 system:

Code:

       A login shell begins by  executing  commands  from  the  system  files
       /etc/csh.cshrc  and  /etc/csh.login.   It  then executes commands from
       files in the  user’s  home  directory:  first  ~/.tcshrc  (+)  or,  if
       ~/.tcshrc is not found, ~/.cshrc, then ~/.history (or the value of the
       histfile shell variable), then ~/.login, and  finally  ~/.cshdirs  (or
       the  value  of  the  dirsfile shell variable) (+).

If you're sure you have the file named correctly (it's misspelled in your last post), then post its contents here...