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From: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: current pwd in prompt
Message-ID: <233@stcns3.stc.oz>
Date: 10 Feb 88 23:37:55 GMT
References: <11657@brl-adm.ARPA> <17877@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall)
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In article <17877@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
>
>On the Korn shell (but not most Bourne shell PS1 is evaluated each time
>it is printed so you can:
>
>    PS1="`pwd` "

It would be better to use PS1="\${PWD}".  Although "pwd" is a built-in anyway.

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