Prompt for ksh
Wm E Davidsen Jr
davidsen at crdos1.crd.ge.COM
Thu Oct 26 02:17:40 AEST 1989
You have to escape the $ so it's evaluated at display time.
PS1='$PWD> '
My personal favorite is:
PS!='${PWD#$HOME/}> '
which displays subdirectory only in my login directory, but full
pathname elsewhere. Nice to have on the screen if you are ready to do "rm *"
--
bill davidsen (davidsen at crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon
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