LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] Ksh93 vs. Pdksh88: Custom PS1 prompt not working

Greetings!

I have to work with a NFS user id between two hosts: A running Ksh 93 and B running pdksh 88. Both host run RedHat.

My problem has to do with the custom prompt I created on A: it works like a charm and display colors:

Code:

PS1="$'\E[46;31m'`logname`@$'\E[1;33m'`hostname -s`:$'\E[0m>"

But I switch over to B, it all goes to hell (private info removed). The prompt fails to display colors like host A ; instead, the color codes are displayed "in clear".

Code:

$'\E[46;31m'NFS_user_name@$'\E[1;33m'host_name_for_B:$'\E[0m>

The prompt on host B is not displaying colors like host A so I want B to display a basic prompt instead. To get around the problem, I edited my .kshrc file to add this code at the end

Code:

    export NODE=`uname -n`

    

    case $NODE in

        host_name_for_B)

            PS1="[`logname`@`uname -n`]>"

            ;;

        *)

            PS1="$'\E[46;31m'`logname`@$'\E[1;33m'`hostname -s`:$'\E[0m>"

            ;;

    esac

The case statement does not work: PS1 does not switch to `PS1="[`logname`@`uname -n`]>"`.

Any idea what could be the problem? Thanks!