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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Prompt for ksh
Message-ID: <1462@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 25 Oct 89 16:17:40 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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You have to escape the $ so it's evaluated at display time.

	PS1='$PWD> '

My personal favorite is:
	PS!='${PWD#$HOME/}> '

which displays subdirectory only in my login directory, but full
pathname elsewhere. Nice to have on the screen if you are ready to do "rm *"

-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon