ksh prompt

[Owen D. Beckley]

>From article <7079 at mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, by asg at sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master):
> 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> \""
> Try instead
> PS1="--> \$PWD <-- 

If you like a one line prompt, try this:

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

I puts only the lowest three parts of PWD in the prompt.

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