Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: A blank line before the unix prompt? Keywords: prompt Message-ID:Date: 9 Aug 88 14:45:42 GMT References: <3809@okstate.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 15 If you're using the real shell, then you can do PS1=`promptprog` where promptprog is a program that generates the new prompt. For example PS1=`cat << END_CAT $ $ END_CAT` Will double up dollar sign prompts. -Ron