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I recently started using ksh, and one thing I miss dearly from csh is
the ability to put the current directory in your prompt.  With csh, it
can be done by aliasing the cd command to something that does the cd
and then re-sets your prompt, using `pwd` to get the new directory.
Unfortunately, it seems that you can't use the parameters inside an
alias like you can in csh, so this trick doesn't work.  Is there a
different trick for ksh, or am I just going to have to live with
typing "pwd" all the time?

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Quote:>I recently started using ksh, and one thing I miss dearly from csh is
>the ability to put the current directory in your prompt. [...]

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

If you want the whole thing, then just use some variation of:

PS1='${PWD}> '

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Well, I've gotten many replies to this question.  The general idea is
to create a function called "_cd" (or something similar), which does
the actual cd and then resets the prompt, and then alias cd to this
function.  The slickest answer was by Mike O'Connor, who submitted the
following function:

function _cd {
        unalias cd
        cd $1
        alias cd=_cd
        if [ "${PWD#${HOME}}" != "${PWD}" ]
        then

        else

        fi

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Thanks to everybody who replied to this!

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

...this gives you the PWD with current history #, and a $ prompt...

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        PS1='${PWD##*/} > '

Note that this is running under ksh.

One little tidbit to push it 0.0001 nearer to perfection: change that
$1 to $*, so you don't lose the ksh feature to say, e.g., 'cd lib spool'
to change from /usr/lib/uucp to /usr/spool/uucp...
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