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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ksh acting weird under SCO Unix
Message-ID: <2248@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 90 02:03:42 GMT
References: <35582@cup.portal.com> <8573@scolex.sco.COM> <35665@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <35665@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:

| The reason I wanted to use ksh was to be able to alias cd so that
| I could have it set my prompt to include that name of my current
| directory, since I usually have about 5 things going on in 5
| virtual terminals.

  You don't need an alias, just include the dirname in the prompt.

Ex 1:
  PS1='${PWD} $ '
  # just the dirname and a $

ex 2:
  PS1='${PWD#$HOME/}> '
  # in and subdir of your HOME dir, just the subdir name, else full path.
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bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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