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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re^2: Getting UNIX prompt to display current directory
Keywords: UNIX  prompt directories pwd
Message-ID: <2205@solo1.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 23 Mar 89 04:09:46 GMT
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Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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connet@sal50.usc.edu (David Connet) writes:
\...
\Actually you can just get away with
\	PS1="\$PWD: "
\        ^
\The backslash is required.  The shell (at least ksh) then reevaluates
\the PS1 each time.

Precisely! *ksh*, not sh.
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