Thank you all who supplied the answer:
Insert
PS1='$PWD>'
in your .profile file.
DINMAN_at_aladdin-asi.com was the first to respond, followed quickley by:
Mukesh Soni, Eric Mermelstein, Larry Griffith, Graham McKenzie, Charles
Vachon, L. A. Mullikin, and Lucien Hercaud.
H. Blakely Williford offered an enhanced alternative:
PS1=`echo '\n$HOST \033[1m$PWD\033[0m\n> '`
which retains the hostname in the string (a very good idea), highlights
the working directory in red, and starts a '>' prompt on a new line
(another good idea, since paths in UNIX seem to grow quite long.)
Scott L. McCracken offered a truely general approach, frontending the
'cd' command with a function:
CD() {
cd "$1"
PS1="`pwd`>"
unalias cd
alias cd=CD
}
CD $HOME
Again, thank you all for your responses. My users were quite pleased,
too.
Gary George, I.S.P.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary George
> Sent: Monday, April 06, 1998 9:04 AM
> To: 'Alpha Managers'
> Subject: Newbie Question: Prompt String for ksh
>
> Is there a way to make the Korn shell prompt show the current working
> directory, like the MS-DOS "PROMPT $P$G" ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Gary George, I.S.P.
>
Received on Mon Apr 06 1998 - 19:45:12 NZST