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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: current pwd in prompt
Message-ID: <9481@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 88 17:26:39 GMT
References: <11656@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <11656@brl-adm.ARPA> Mensing.HENR801c@Xerox.COM writes:
| 
| Can anyone explain to me how to get my prompt to be the current directory? I
| have tried several methods without any success. It seems that no matter what
| method I try, the prompt is evaluated once and never changes.

You use the value of PWD, which is the name you want. i.e.:
	PS1='$PWD > '
I have seen people saying that you can use `pwd` in the prompt, but
that doesn't work in any of the versions I have seen over the last few
years. $PWD does.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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