working in different prompts

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

hi

i want a script which would invoke a different prompt and execute commands in that prompt and comes back. Is it possible?

2

Which flavour of unix you are using.
for solaris if you want to change your prompt
echo $PS1 will tell you the prompt.
you neet to type
PS1=#
or
PS1=@

or
PS1="`hostname`{`logname`}"
whatever you want.Then execute the coomads whichever you want.

then press ^d you will be taken out of that shell.
you will again prompt to the original shell.

Thanks
Namish

3

What kind of prompt ? A new shell or a new xterm window ?

For xterm, you can probably use

xterm -e <progname> [args]

See man xterm for more details.

For shell, you can use the -c flag i.e.

[k]sh -c

See man sh/ksh

4

hi

my scenario is like this. i have telnetted to a machine. in that i have to run a process for which i have to change the prompt to say 'XYZ'. then in that prompt i have to stop a process by the command say, 'stop-process'. then i would quit that prompt by 'exit' command
I want a script to do this. the problem is the prompt is changed , but the command s not getting executed. my script luks like this.

#! /bin/csh -f
XYZ
sleep 15
stop-process
exit

how to do tht?