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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Getting UNIX prompt to display curr
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Date: 21 Mar 89 15:05:00 GMT
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>In MS-DOS there is a very easy way to get the current directory displayed as
>part of the prompt  (prompt $p).  In UNIX, there is certainly no
>straightforward way to do this.  Can anyone think of a tricky way?  

Maybe the Unix.Gods should put it in in a simple way and give it
a prominent place in TFM.