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From: beckley@cbnewsd.att.com (Owen D. Beckley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: ksh prompt
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.155248.8035@cbnewsd.att.com>
Date: 28 Feb 91 15:52:48 GMT
References: <7079@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, IL
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From article <7079@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, by asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master):
> In article <1772@brchh104.bnr.ca> herrage@brchh107.BNR.CA writes:
>>I have the following defined in my .profile:
>>
>>  alias prompt="PS1=\"--> \`pwd\` <--
>>  hostname> \""
> Try instead
> PS1="--> \$PWD <-- 

If you like a one line prompt, try this:

PS1='${PWD#${PWD%/*/*/*}/}> '

I puts only the lowest three parts of PWD in the prompt.

			owen_d_beckley@att.com