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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: "Real" Shells
Message-ID: <17933@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 88 23:57:28 GMT
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Keywords: PS1 values

> You recently posted that 
>	PS1="."
> displays the current directory "...with any real shell".  Since it doesn't
> work with the Bourne shell on SysV R3.0, I wonder what you mean by a "real
> shell", C shell only????

Bourne shells are the only real shells.

$ PS1="."
.ls -ldi $PS1
65542 drwxr-xr-x 15 ron          4096 Feb  9 17:55 .

Looks like the current directory to me.

-Ron