current pwd in prompt

[Dave Horsfall]

In article <17877 at topaz.rutgers.edu> ron at topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
>
>On the Korn shell (but not most Bourne shell PS1 is evaluated each time
>it is printed so you can:
>
>    PS1="`pwd` "

It would be better to use PS1="\${PWD}".  Although "pwd" is a built-in anyway.

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