Prompt for ksh
Conor P. Cahill
cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Wed Oct 25 11:07:32 AEST 1989
In article <3028 at jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, liu at jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Xuyong Liu) writes:
> alias cd='cd $1; PS1="$PWD: "
How about: PS1="\$PWD: "
PS1 is re-parsed prior to each use, so the \$ will cause the PWD
variable to be expanded at run time, as opposed to definition time.
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