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Re: BASH prompt modification.
- To: Panos Platon Tsapralis <pan at hol dot gr>
- Subject: Re: BASH prompt modification.
- From: "$Bill Luebkert" <dbe at wgn dot net>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 21:53:23 -0700
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: DBE Collectibles
- References: <01BC9630.3A87B4A0@port2.ppp2.hol.gr>
- Reply-To: dbe at wgn dot net
Panos Platon Tsapralis wrote:
>
> Dear friends,
>
> I want to modify the command line prompt of BASH so that
it will show on-screen ( after complete execution of every command )
the current directory ( the output of pwd or the content of $PWD ).
How on earth do I do this ? I have made endless efforts to find a
solution but to no avail. Please help me...
Read the section on "Prompting" in the bash man page:
PS1="\w "
add history to prompt:
PS1="\w <\!> "
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