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From: cjc@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[rs])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: current pwd in prompt
Message-ID: <10027@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 9 Feb 88 13:49:40 GMT
References: <11657@brl-adm.ARPA> <17877@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
Lines: 19
Summary: don't have to run the pwd program

In article <17877@topaz.rutgers.edu>, ron@topaz.rutgers.edu.UUCP writes:
> [...]
> 
> On the Korn shell (but not most Bourne shell PS1 is evaluated each time
> it is printed so you can:
> 
>     PS1="`pwd` "
> 
> -Ron


The Korn shell also has an internal variable which keeps track of
the current directory, thus
	PS1=$PWD
works just as well, only a zillion times faster.

	Chris Calabrese
	AT&T Bell Labs
	ulysses!cjc