Earnie Boyd wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > Agree. I'm still for giving a nice PS1 by default (aka not '$ ') > > but it should get simplified so that it works for all bourne shell > > clones. > > > > PS1="`whoami`@`hostname` `basename \`pwd\``> " >
Oops. Make that. PS1="`whoami`@`hostname`> " There isn't a portable way to set the current working directory in the prompt string. Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
