Current directory in the ksh prompt?

[Michael Stefanik]

In an article, mju at mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>I recently started using ksh, and one thing I miss dearly from csh is
>the ability to put the current directory in your prompt. [...]

My personal favorite is this one (it prints out the basename of the
current directory):

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

If you want the whole thing, then just use some variation of:

PS1='${PWD}> '

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