Setting prompt to show current directory

[Frank,Hong]

Dear all:
How can I show the current directory beside the prompt?
Should I modify the setting file?How?
Thanks anyway!

[Muthukumar_5]

You can set it as simply as,

-- /etc/profile --

export PS1='$PWD # '

hth.

[Slawomir Gora]

HI,
you can add to .profile

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

[RAC_1]

echo $PWD
command-pwd

[Muthukumar_5]

If you want temporarily then in shell prompt execute as,

# export PS1='$PWD # '

else user specific then,

put it in $HOME/.profile file.

hth.

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,


we use:
export PS1='K250: ${PWD##/}>'

where my server name is K250

of course, you will have to add the above line in your .profile

hope this helps too!

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Muthukumar_5]

Yogee,

Hope you are great there :)

export PS1='K250: ${PWD##/}>'

You don't want / in pwd ?

Instead you can use as,

export PS1='`hostname`: ${PWD}>' itself. It will help you when changing hostname.

thx.

[Shweta_3]

Hi Frank,

If you are using ksh/bash, you can place the following in the .profile file.
And source the file ". ~/.profile"

The " $' " in the next line is deliberate to get a clean line to type your command, especially if you are deep down your directory!!

export PS1='[$LOGNAME@'`hostname`':$PWD]
$'

Enjoy!!

[Ranjith_5]

Hi,

Add the following entry in /etc/profile

or $HOME/.profile


export PS1="`whoami`@`uname -n` in \$PWD>#"


regards,
Syam

[Steve Lewis]

If you use X windows then you can also set the same details as your window title. Just add this to the end of your ~/.profile ( the ^M is a CTRL-M, got by typing CTRL-V, then CTRL-M, it is not ^ then M.)


function settitle
{
case $TERM in
xterm|dtterm)
echo "\033]0;$1\007\c"
;;
hp*)
echo "\033&f0k${#1}D$1\c"
;;
*)
;;
esac
}
PS1=$(settitle '[$LOGNAME]'`hostname`:'${PWD}')^M'[$LOGNAME]'`hostname`':${PWD}> '

[Andy Torres]

My favorite prompt in POSIX shell:

========= In my .profile =========
export PS1='
$LOGNAME@$HOST: [$PWD] \

# '
=============================

Gives me present working directory in a "header" line, then drops a line to give me full use of the entire length of the command line.

Hope that helps.

[Andy Torres]

Oops. I forgot to mention I export the HOST variable as well:

==========================
export HOST=`/usr/bin/hostname`
==========================

[Geoff Wild]

Here's how I do it in .profile:

HOST=`uname -n`
PS1="
\$LOGNAME@\$HOST [ \$PWD ]
# ";export PS1


Rgds...Geoff

[Rodney Hills]

I like to highlight the prompt and only display the last directory name of the PWD path (sometimes the path can get quite long).

Here is what I have in my .profile-

export ttybold=`tput bold` ; export ttynorm=`tput rmso`
export PS1='${ttybold}pegasus ${PWD##*/} #${ttynorm} '

HTH

-- Rod Hills