Setting a prompt with current path name on Korn Shell

[shine67]

What is the equivalent setting on ksh with the following csh alias.

alias cd 'cd \!* ; getprompt'
alias getprompt 'set prompt="${HOST}:$cwd/ \! % "'

This is basically to display the current directory on the prompt. For instance if I am at /var/mail then I want the prompt to look like

HostName:/var/mail 335 %

where 335 is the command number on the history list.

W/o this I have to constantly type 'pwd' to see where I am.

Thanks,
Shine.

 

[PHV]

Something like this ?

export PS1="`hostname`:"'$PWD'" > "

Hope This Help, PH.
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[shine67]

Great! Thanks for quick reply. It works.

Now a question. How are "" and '' mixed there working? What does '$PWD' do?

Thanks again,
Shine

 

[PHV]

man ksh
Pay attention to Quoting and to parameters automatically set by the shell

Hope This Help, PH.
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