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From: serge@imag.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Re: Prompt changing on the fly
Message-ID: <1408@imag.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Feb-87 12:03:13 EST
Article-I.D.: imag.1408
Posted: Mon Feb  2 12:03:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Feb-87 05:19:56 EST
References: <432@ethz.UUCP> <2935@diku.UUCP>
Reply-To: serge@imag.UUCP (Serge ROUVEYROL)
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Keywords: prompt
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In article <2935@diku.UUCP> storm@diku.UUCP writes:
>You cannot use a shell script or a program to change the shell prompt
>dynamically, because the PS1/prompt variables are local to the shell,
>and therefore they can only be changed by the shell itself.  

avec la commande  chdir :    echo directory ?
                             read  dir
                             cd $dir && PS1=`pwd`" $ "

et l'appel de commande  :    . chdir
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