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[AndyJ]

hi everyone

I install solaris last week. And play around with it. I think unix is mostly same with linux (fedora) which i've been using for a year, am i right ?.

Like you guys already know about this when you type in fedora:

root@server [~]# cd /home 
root@server [/home]#

but in Solaris , when i type cd /home or other directories then it doesn't show anything:

#cd /home
#

What should i do ? please help
Thanks

[Slidey]

try the following command:

echo $PS1

or maybe run bash first

solaris can be *similar* to linux - its not the same

[AndyJ]

Thanks,

But how do i run bash ?

[E_man3]

Originally posted by AndyJ
Thanks,

But how do i run bash ?

bash

Well its not really a big deal. You just have to remember where you are. If you forget where you are just type:
pwd

[Jeff - Exceed]

How do you like Solaris as a personal OS?

[jeff_2anet]

The thing is, in Solaris (and most standard unix variants), the prompt is NOT going to be updated to show you the path - you're just going to get the '#' to indicate that you're root. Standard users usually have different prompts, but the root prompt is (historically) unchanged.

You're in /home/, just use 'ls' to see the files, and if you forget where you are, 'pwd', just like Linux, BSD, etc.

[shellprompt]

If you want to change your prompt, put something like this in the .bash_profile for that user

PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "

(I'd recommend keeping the root prompt as the hash though)

[Slidey]

point being bash isnt standard on most unix variants

[jeff_2anet]

Actually, you're right in that it's probably tcsh, but the real point is that most unix variants make a point of having a very obvious root prompt - even if they WERE using bash, they'd likely set the prompt to '#' anyway.