"Real" Shells
Wolf N. Paul
wnp at dcs.UUCP
Thu Feb 11 01:14:01 AEST 1988
In article <199 at mccc.UUCP> pjh at mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
|You recently posted that
| PS1="."
|displays the current directory "...with any real shell". Since it doesn't
|work with the Bourne shell on SysV R3.0, I wonder what you mean by a "real
|shell", C shell only????
|
I THINK this was supposed to be a joke. If you set PS1=".", your prompt
will be ".", and "." on UNIX is ALWAYS the current directory :-) ...
This works with the Bourne shell on SysVR3, only its not very informative.
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