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From: eirik@lurch.Stanford.EDU (Eirik Fuller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Bourne Shell Question?
Summary: don't take this seriously
Keywords: PS1
Message-ID: <1895@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 2 Feb 89 01:47:35 GMT
References: <8517@dasys1.UUCP> <201@carroll1.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: tkopp@carroll1.UUCP (Tom Kopp)

In article <201@carroll1.UUCP>, tkopp@carroll1 (Tom Kopp) writes:
>In article <8517@dasys1.UUCP>, dap9702@dasys1.UUCP (Dan Powers) writes:
>>   Does anyone know how to get a prompt in Bourne Shell that contains the
>> current working directory (pwd). I can get this to work in C shell by 
> ...
>I have not yet seen this done on a Bourne Shell, and I have asked a few
>people and none of them know how to do it.
> ...

It's been too long since the last time the following answer was
posted.  If I remembered who last posted it, I'd give credit.  I
thought it was hilarious last time; certainly no worse than the
periodic asking of this perpetual question.  The answer is ...


PS1=.


Hahahahahaha

I liked this answer so much when I first saw it that ever since, every
Unix account I've got has "set prompt=." in .cshrc