From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 16 19:47:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA17940 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 May 1998 19:47:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA17886 for ; Sat, 16 May 1998 19:46:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA03293; Sun, 17 May 1998 12:16:02 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980517121602.K370@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 12:16:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brendan Kosowski , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /bin/sh question References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Brendan Kosowski on Sun, May 17, 1998 at 12:27:13PM -1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 17 May 1998 at 12:27:13 -1000, Brendan Kosowski wrote: > > How do I make /bin/sh display the current working directory before the $ > prompt. Well, I don't know why you're using /bin/sh, but putting this in your .profile should do the trick: cd () { command cd $1; PS1="`pwd` -> "; } Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message