UNIX prompts (-ksh)

[Dik T. Winter]

In article <4549 at vpk4.UUCP> hjespers at attcan.UUCP (Hans Jespersen) writes:
 > In article <2391 at buengc.BU.EDU> bph at buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
 > >In article <11080 at well.UUCP> tneff at well.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
 > >>Actually not even the classic Korn shell solution of
 > >>
 > >>	export PS1='$PWD> '
 > >I don't know ksh, but all the other shells I've seen use single-quotes
 > >to protect against variable substitution...
Same for ksh.
 > Absolutely correct. I think Tom ment
 > 	export PS1=`$PWD> `
 >                 ^      ^
No.  The contents of PS1 must be $PWD> and it will be evaluated when doing
the prompt.  This is of course very ksh specific.
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