newbie PS1 config question

[Johnathan Kupferer]

Niels Roetert wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 18:41, Ko Pu wrote:
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>>PS1 question:
>>How can I change the PS to display the current directory? According to 
>>documentation, the \w should show the current directory, but when I used it, 
>>it showed ~, what I'm looking for is to display info similar to pwd.
>>
>>prompt question:
>>I'm using dsl modem, so the ip address is dynamic, and the prompt showed the 
>>ip address, how can I change it to my computer name? I added it to my 
>>/etc/host but I still got the ip address. This is what I have in my prompt.
>>[kpu at d209-121-129-174 Linux]$
>>
>>Thanks in advance for your comment/suggestion
>>
>>Ko Fei Pu
>>mailto:ko_pu at nospamhotmail.com
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>I always put the following line in my ~/.bashrc
>
>	PS1=`echo "("'${PWD}'") "`
>
>Works for me.
>
>Greeting, Niels.
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>

Took me a bit to crunch through that one...

It's equivalent to:

    PS1='(${PWD})\$ '

Which, IMHO, is quite a bit easier to read.

Cheers,

Johnathan