Bourne Shell Question?

[Eduardo Krell]

In article <9562 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) writes:

>I think
>for the Korn shell one would use "alias" in a manner similar to your
>Cshell example.

You don't need an alias. All you need is to put $PWD in your PS1
prompt. I like PS1='(${PWD#$HOME/}) ' which displays your working
directory relative to your home directory. This is from the ksh book.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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