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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Prompt for ksh
Message-ID: <1269@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 24 Oct 89 20:57:18 GMT
References: <3028@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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in article <3028@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, liu@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Xuyong Liu) says:


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

I don't have an alias for cd.
I do have
PS1=`uname -n`'_${PWD}_!$ '
which yields:
mitisft_/u3/dold_6980$ 

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