Current directory in the ksh prompt?

[Donn Pedro]

In article <1991Apr30.021429.2072 at spool.cs.wisc.edu>, odin at jomby.cs.wisc.edu (Odin Anderson) writes:
> Isn't the folowing more simple while still doing what you want:
> 	 PS1=" \$PWD> "
> This works well for me (I like the whole path).  

If you only want the last component of the path:

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

Note that this is running under ksh.


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