current pwd in prompt

rjd at occrsh.ATT.COM rjd at occrsh.ATT.COM
Wed Feb 10 03:32:00 AEST 1988


>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.
>
>Just in case it matters, I am on an AT&T 3B2/400 running korn shell under UNIX
>System V.3.1.
>
>Thanks,
>	Dave Mensing

 Well, since we just went through this in one of the groups I read (this one?),
and I am also running ksh for my login, this was the method that I liked the
best.  Put into your .profile (or the file that ENV is set to):

c() {
	cd $*
	PS1="${PWD}: "
}

  And use "c <dirname>" to change directories.

Randy



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