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From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Bourne Shell Question?
Message-ID: <943@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 89 11:46:13 GMT
References: <8517@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
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In article <8517@dasys1.UUCP> dap9702@dasys1.UUCP (Dan Powers) writes:
|Hi All,
|  Does anyone know how to get a prompt in Bourne Shell that contains the
|current working directory (pwd).

If you can cope with a somewhat wierd syntax, you could do it this way:

[/usr/dan] $c bin $d
[/usr/dan/bin]

The c and d are environment variables that are set up this way:

c='eval cd'
d='; PS1="[`pwd`] "'
export c d PS1

You can stick this in your .profile or in a file you . from within .profile.

      Leo.