ksh prompt

Scott P Nichols nichols at en.ecn.purdue.edu
Fri Mar 1 04:37:58 AEST 1991


In article <1772 at brchh104.bnr.ca> herrage at brchh107.BNR.CA writes:
>I have the following defined in my .profile:
>
>  alias prompt="PS1=\"--> \`pwd\` <--
>  hostname> \""
>  
>This sets my prompt to put my current directory on one line
>and my prompt below it on the next line.  I also want to have
>an alias (or something) for "cd" so that when I use "cd" to 
>change directories, my prompt will update accordingly.  The
>problem is that when I alias "cd", ksh doesn't parse for any
>imbedded aliases.  Therefore,
>
>  alias cd='cd $*;prompt'
>  
How about...

PS1='\!]$PWD>'

...works for me!

Scott
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