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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Prompt for ksh
Message-ID: <1989Oct25.010732.1367@virtech.uucp>
Date: 25 Oct 89 01:07:32 GMT
References: <3028@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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In article <3028@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, liu@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Xuyong Liu) writes:
> alias cd='cd $1; PS1="$PWD: "

How about:	PS1="\$PWD: "

PS1 is re-parsed prior to each use, so the \$ will cause the PWD 
variable to be expanded at run time, as opposed to definition time.


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