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From: liu@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Xuyong Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Prompt for ksh
Summary: set prompt to $PWD under ksh
Message-ID: <3028@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 22 Oct 89 20:09:10 GMT
Reply-To: liu@alpha.ece.jhu.edu (Xuyong Liu)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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Under the C shell, one can set the prompt to the current working
directory by using the following alias:
alias cd 'cd \!* ; set prompt = "$CWD: "'.

How can this be done under ksh?  I tried
alias cd='cd $1; PS1="$PWD: "
and it did not work.

Thanks for any help in advance.

liu@alpha.ece.jhu.edu
liu@jhunix.UUCP