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From: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Setting PS1 prompt to show current directory.
Message-ID: <35@icus.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Nov-87 07:47:59 EST
Article-I.D.: icus.35
Posted: Sun Nov 15 07:47:59 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Nov-87 06:05:38 EST
References: <275@caus-dp.UUCP>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
Organization: ICUS Computer Group, Islip, NY
Lines: 34
Keywords: How do you do it?
Summary: Use a function like this...
Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:4926 comp.unix.wizards:5479

In article <275@caus-dp.UUCP> dansh@caus-dp.UUCP (Dan Harris) writes:
>I am currently using the Bourne shell on an Intel 310 xenix system
>and I was wondering how to set the cursor prompt to indicate what
>directory I am working in.
> 

My solution is to constantly reset PS1 environment variable after
each invocation of "cd": (place this in your .profile)

c()
{
	cd $*
	PS1="`pwd`] " ; export PS1
}

Now change directories with:

$ c /
/] c usr
/usr] c /bin
/bin]

Hope this helps.
Lenny
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