The shell prompt is the visual aspect of the shell between running programs, th epart that shows it is waiting for you to give it a command.
In a shell you have a prompt that is right justified and one that is left justified.
The shell.
It generally refers to setting the text that will appear when the shell prompt is asking the user to type in a command, meaning, the shell needs work to do. The standard prompt in most shell environments is a single character, such as '#', '$', or '%'. By setting the prompt you can customize what appears when the system is idle and wants you to type in a command to do something.
its a command prompt shell, must be there if you want to use command prompt
Use the shell variable PS1 to set the command prompt to whatever you need.
Safe mode with command prompt option is totally depends on DOS shell, hence there is no need for separate command prompt..
While the command is executing, the shell waits for the process to finish.
The secondary prompt (PS2) is used to prompt the user with whatever string they want to indicate a command continuation line. For example, if I use the standard PS2 prompt and type in the command: cat abc def \ The shell will prompt me for the rest of the line with a ? mark or some other character. I usually set my secondary prompt for something more interesting, such as: PS2='more ? ' So that I know that the shell wants more information before executing the command line.
The # symbol.
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$Dollar$
If you are using windows, MSDOS shell is integrated by default..