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From: floyd@ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: ksh prompt
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.050338.7038@ims.alaska.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 05:03:38 GMT
References: <1991Mar4.133215.12269@cbnews.att.com> <57993@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com> <7365@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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In article <7365@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master) writes:
>In article <57993@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com> heiby@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby) writes:
>}lvc@cbnews.att.com (lawrence.v.cipriani) writes:
>}>I suggest the cd in function ch be quoted:
>}
>}>	function ch {
>}>		if "cd" ${*:-''}
>}...
>}>so that a second ". $ENV" will not see 'ch' inside of function ch.
>WHY DO YOU WANT TO MAKE IT SO HARD?????
>The $PWD variable changes when you cd. 
>ksh provides for another eval of the prompt string before printing it,
>so all you have to do is quote the $ in $PWD like this:
>PS1="\$PWD ->"
>this will give you a prompt that includes the current directory and
>is dynamic - and it is alot easier than a whole bunch of
>kludged functions.

PS1='$PWD ->'

Floyd

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