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From: jm@pluriproj.pt (Jose Monteiro)
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Subject: Setting PS1
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 09:11:57 GMT
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Hi,

Originally my .bash_profile came with:

# # set prompt: ``username@hostname$ '' 
PS1="`whoami`@`hostname | sed 's/\..*//'`"
case `id -u` in
        0) PS1="${PS1} # ";;
        *) PS1="${PS1} $ ";;
esac

In order to put the current working directory in PS1, I changed the
above lines to:

# # set prompt: ``username@hostname$ '' 
PS1="`whoami`@`hostname | sed 's/\..*//'`"
case `id -u` in
        0) PS1="${PS1} ${PWD}# ";;
        *) PS1="${PS1} ${PWD}$ ";;
esac

But the result is a permanent $HOME in PS1, even if I cd to anywhere
else.

What should I do in order to get a prompt like:

jose@thor /usr/local$ cd bin
jose@thor /usr/local/bin$

Thanks in advance.

Jose Monteiro


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