"Real" Shells

Wolf N. Paul wnp at dcs.UUCP
Thu Feb 11 01:14:01 AEST 1988


In article <199 at mccc.UUCP> pjh at mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
|You recently posted that 
|	PS1="."
|displays the current directory "...with any real shell".  Since it doesn't
|work with the Bourne shell on SysV R3.0, I wonder what you mean by a "real
|shell", C shell only????
|

I THINK this was supposed to be a joke. If you set PS1=".", your prompt
will be ".", and "." on UNIX is ALWAYS the current directory :-) ...

This works with the Bourne shell on SysVR3, only its not very informative.



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