Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
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From: chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey)
Subject: Re:  System V questions
Message-ID: <1990Jan2.162808.13552@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Reply-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
Organization: Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
References: <21917@adm.BRL.MIL>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 90 16:28:08 GMT

In article <21917@adm.BRL.MIL> mwood!attcc!hpn@att.att.com writes:
>About getting the prompt to show your current working directory,  try this:
>
>PS1='${PWD##}'

Try getting the Korn Shell or bash (the Gnu Bourne-Again SHell) before 
expecting this to work.

>About the alias, try this:
>alias dir=ls -l

Again, get bash first.  They try
alias dir="ls -l"

The quotes are required for any alias containing white space.  This is what
bash does with the unquoted form:

cwns1$ alias dir=ls -l
alias: -l not found

>Or try 'man alias'

Misleading.  On my systems, `man alias' is equivalent to `man csh'.

Chet Ramey




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