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From: dfpedro@uswnvg.UUCP (Donn Pedro)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Current directory in the ksh prompt?
Message-ID: <760@uswnvg.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 91 14:20:49 GMT
References: <sN6311w164w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1991Apr30.021429.2072@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
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In article <1991Apr30.021429.2072@spool.cs.wisc.edu>, odin@jomby.cs.wisc.edu (Odin Anderson) writes:
> Isn't the folowing more simple while still doing what you want:
> 	 PS1=" \$PWD> "
> This works well for me (I like the whole path).  

If you only want the last component of the path:

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

Note that this is running under ksh.


	dfpedro@uswnvg.UUCP