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From: karthur@codas.att.com (Kurt_R_Arthur)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How to have PS1 evaluated after each "cd"
Message-ID: <1471@codas.att.com>
Date: 31 Dec 87 15:31:04 GMT
References: <1876@netsys.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Altamonte Springs, FL
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In article <1876@netsys.UUCP> lee@netsys.UUCP (Lee Chen) writes:
> 
>   Not So Long Ago there was a discussion about how to have the present
> working directory evaluated and displayed as part of the PS1 prompt.
> Would anyone (or two :-) care to summarize on effective solutions to
> this "problem" via ksh, csh, sh, *sh script or C ?
> 
In ksh I have set the folllowing in my .profile to set the path as part of
the prompt:

PS1="`uname`
\${PWD}>"

This makes my prompt the machine name, a new line, and the path followed by
a ">".  Example:

			codas
			/usr/karthur>

If you don't want the machine name in the prompt, just:
PS1="\${PWD}>"

The \ is required as an escape for the $.  Hope this helps!


Kurt Arthur
Software Services of Florida, Inc.