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To: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: parsable promptstring in sh?
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From: Kevin Street <street@iname.com>
Date: 07 May 1998 20:52:26 -0400
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Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> writes:

> Can I somehow do this:
> 
> 	set -o promptexpn
> 	PS1=\`pwd\`$; export PS1
> 
> or some such to have a prompt that is expanded by sh?  (I know there is no
> promptexpn option, per se, but there's got to be something, right?)

You could do something like this in your profile:

	setprompt () {
	    PS1=`pwd`' $';
	};
	
	cd () {
	    command cd "$@";
	    setprompt;
        };

	setprompt;

-- 
Kevin Street
street@iName.com

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