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From: hjespers@vpk4.UUCP (Hans Jespersen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX prompts (-ksh)
Message-ID: <4549@vpk4.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 89 03:41:30 GMT
References: <18805@adm.BRL.MIL> <11080@well.UUCP> <2391@buengc.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: hjespers@attcan.UUCP (Hans Jespersen)
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In article <2391@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>In article <11080@well.UUCP> tneff@well.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
>>Actually not even the classic Korn shell solution of
>>
>>	export PS1='$PWD> '
>>
>>seems to work everywhere.  
 
>I don't know ksh, but all the other shells I've seen use single-quotes
>to protect against variable substitution...

Absolutely correct. I think Tom ment

	export PS1=`$PWD> `
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