Current directory in the ksh prompt?

[Mike Mills]

mju at mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:

>I wrote:
>> I recently started using ksh, and one thing I miss dearly from csh is
>> the ability to put the current directory in your prompt.  With csh, it
>[...]

Rather than a function, you can just do this:

PS1='${PWD##*/}<!>$ '

...this gives you the PWD with current history #, and a $ prompt...


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