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From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
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Subject: Re: Setting PS1
To: hanspb@persbraten.vgs.no (Hans Petter Bieker)
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 12:42:02 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: jm@pluriproj.pt, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970926152341.1977B-100000@zerium.newmedia.no> from Hans Petter Bieker at "Sep 26, 97 03:28:03 pm"
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In a previous message, Hans Petter Bieker said:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Jose Monteiro wrote:
> 
> > jose@thor /usr/local$ cd bin
> > jose@thor /usr/local/bin$
> 
> In bash:
> 
> [hanspbie@zerium ~]$ echo $PS1
> [\u@\h \w]\$
> [hanspbie@zerium ~]$ cd /usr/local
> [hanspbie@zerium /usr/local]$
> 
> ... does anyone know how to do this in sh (sorry, I don't have sh on
> this Linux box ;) )?



You have to do with functions. Something like:

export HOST
HOST=`hostname`
mycd ()
{
	cd $*
	PWD=`pwd`
	PS1="[${USER}@${HOST} ${PWD%$HOME}]\$ "
}


Paul.
 
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