ASPL User Guide v 1.00
© 2025 Bassem W. Jamaleddine

The following are prompt commands that can be included when defining your ASPL1_00_PROMPT environment variable. To change your ASPL interpreter prompt, see the table below.

 -TB- Tab. E.1   [ASPL PROMPT COMMANDS][ASPL1_00_PROMPT COMMANDS]

{u}	user
{h}	hostname
{tm}	time
{localtime}	localtime
{isotime}	ISO date and time
{v}	ASPL version number, eg. 1.00
{cwd}	current working directory
{no}	command number
{namedgc}	currently loaded namedGClass
{namedws}	currently loaded namedspace
{reposws}	workspace repository
;promptcolor:COLORNAME	prompt color, eg. bold_black
;logocolor:COLORNAME	color of the ASPL logo, eg. bold_black
;loadcolors:SECTIONNAME	color table section used for tabbed operations, these are defined in your colors.conf

If the environment variable ASPL1_00_PROMPT is not set, then the following is the default prompt:

prompt:aspl:{no} {tm} {u}@{h} {cwd}> ;promptcolor:bold_black;logocolor:bold_black;loadcolors:colors3

Any other characters, including spaces, will become part of the ASPL prompt. The standard ASPL prompt is ASPL followed by > character.

At the ASPL prompt, type the command ttycolors to print the possible colors that you can specify for the COLORNAME to use for the prompt (following ;promptcolor:) and the logo (following ;logocolor:). The list of colors can also be displayed with the command:

# asplcmd ttycolors

At the ASPL prompt, type the command ~colorsfile to edit your colors.conf file, or at the shell prompt type:

# asplcmd ~colorsfile

Each section name can be used following ;loadcolors: to specify the colors of the tabbed operations. You can also create your own section by simply replicating a section and giving it a new name. The colors should be known per the list of ttycolors.

To test setting your prompt, you can simply pass the setting in the environment variable ASPL1_00_PROMPT before the aspl program:

# ASPL1_00_PROMPT='prompt:ASPL {no}>' aspl

# ASPL1_00_PROMPT='prompt:ASPL {no}> ;promptcolor:publisher_cyan' aspl

# ASPL1_00_PROMPT='prompt:ASPL {localtime}> {no} // ' aspl

# ASPL1_00_PROMPT='prompt:ASPL {localtime} {namedws}@{namedgc} > ;promptcolor:bold_strikelightcyan' aspl

# ASPL1_00_PROMPT='prompt:ASPL {localtime} {namedws}@{namedgc} > ;promptcolor:publisher' aspl

Once you are satisfied with the settings of the prompt, just export the ASPL1_00_PROMPT in your bash profile or your ASPL environment sourcing script, usually located in your ~shared/setaspl.