ksh acting weird under SCO Unix

Wm E. Davidsen Jr davidsen at sixhub.UUCP
Wed Nov 7 13:03:42 AEST 1990


In article <35665 at cup.portal.com> ts at cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:

| The reason I wanted to use ksh was to be able to alias cd so that
| I could have it set my prompt to include that name of my current
| directory, since I usually have about 5 things going on in 5
| virtual terminals.

  You don't need an alias, just include the dirname in the prompt.

Ex 1:
  PS1='${PWD} $ '
  # just the dirname and a $

ex 2:
  PS1='${PWD#$HOME/}> '
  # in and subdir of your HOME dir, just the subdir name, else full path.
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