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Re: Help help, prompt problems here!

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> ... or (b) `whoam` itself is stuck for some reason, and when you
> hit ctrl+c it fails, so the "if" fails, so "prompt elite2 red" is not
> executed.

You should be able to replace `whoami` with $USERNAME, since that gets
set by the shell (more precisely, it gets extracted by the shell from
the system when you read it).

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