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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 11:32:57 +0100
From: Martijn Koster <mak@webcrawler.com>
To: Jose Monteiro <jm@pluriproj.pt>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Setting PS1
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On Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 09:11:57AM +0000, Jose Monteiro wrote:

> What should I do [to .bash_profile] in order to get a prompt like:
> 
> jose@thor /usr/local$ cd bin
> jose@thor /usr/local/bin$

`man bash` of course :-)

          ...
          Bash allows these prompt strings to be customized
          by inserting a number of backslash-escaped special
          characters that are decoded as follows:
          ....
              \w   the current working directory

so do: 
 
   $ cd /usr/local
   $ export PS1='\u@\h \w$ '
   mak@mindy /usr/local$ cd bin
   mak@mindy /usr/local/bin$

-- Martijn Koster, m.koster@pobox.com