current pwd in prompt

William E. Davidsen Jr davidsen at steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP
Wed Feb 10 03:26:39 AEST 1988


In article <11656 at brl-adm.ARPA> Mensing.HENR801c at Xerox.COM writes:
| 
| Can anyone explain to me how to get my prompt to be the current directory? I
| have tried several methods without any success. It seems that no matter what
| method I try, the prompt is evaluated once and never changes.

You use the value of PWD, which is the name you want. i.e.:
	PS1='$PWD > '
I have seen people saying that you can use `pwd` in the prompt, but
that doesn't work in any of the versions I have seen over the last few
years. $PWD does.
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