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From: brendan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Brendan Kehoe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Getting UNIX prompt to display current directory
Summary: one possibility
Keywords: UNIX  prompt directories pwd
Message-ID: <304@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Date: 19 Mar 89 05:47:04 GMT
References: <5582@ncsugn.ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: brendan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Brendan Kehoe)
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In article <5582@ncsugn.ncsu.edu> fristens@ncsugn.ncsu.edu (Brian Fristensky) writes:
>                                 Can anyone think of a tricky way?  My
>guess is that it would involve getting pwd output into the shell variable
>$PS1, but that would require somehow getting pwd to execute after each
>command you type. 

 I have this set up in my .kshrc file:

PS1='${PWD##} $LOGNAME>'

 This will give you (for example): /usr/usr1/brendan brendan>
as a prompt. It does *not* work in the Bourne shell..only Korn.

>Brian Fristensky
>Dept. of Botany
>North Carolina State University
>
>nscugn!fristens@mcnc.uucp


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