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From: dcm@busch.UUCP (Craig Miller)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Prompt showing current directory (just like DOS)
Message-ID: <525@busch.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Nov-85 09:14:55 EST
Article-I.D.: busch.525
Posted: Fri Nov 29 09:14:55 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 30-Nov-85 06:38:56 EST
References: <159@pyuxv.UUCP>
Reply-To: dcm@busch.UUCP (Craig Miller)
Organization: Anheuser-Busch Companies - St. Louis Missouri
Lines: 33
Keywords: ksh, $PS1
Xref: watmath net.unix:6442 net.unix-wizards:15907

In article <159@pyuxv.UUCP> cim2@pyuxv.UUCP (Robert L. Fair) writes:
>
>	function ncd {
>		alias cd=cd
>		cd $1
>		PS1="! $PWD >"
>		alias cd=ncd
>	}
>	alias cd=ncd
>	PS1=$PWD

	Another neat thing about ksh is that it checks the PS1 variable
	for $var stuff before it prints it out.  So, the same thing could
	be implemented like this:

		PS1="! \$PWD >"

	(notice that the backslash is needed...)

>Robert L. Fair				
>Bell Communications Research/ C.H.C
>Piscataway 
>N.J.
>(pyuxv!cim2)


-- 
	Craig Miller
	UUCP: ..!ihnp4!we53!busch!dcm
	The Anheuser-Busch Companies; St. Louis, Mo.

- Since I'm a consultant here and not an Anheuser-Busch employee, my
  views (or lack of) are strictly my own.