KSH prompt help!

[Killer_Penguin]

HELP! I'm trying to design my KSH (korn shell) prompt to look like my bash promt, and have the current directory name as part of it. Say for instance I'm in /home/sysop on host epoch the prompt would read:

[sysop@epoch sysop]$ and if I change to say /etc it would show:
[sysop@epoch etc]$

With bash this is easy, the W shows this, so their prompt is like:

PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "

How can I do the same with Unix? I know that basename `pwd` will show it, but how can I get this into my prompt, and update when I change directories!?!?!

[bjzuk]

I remember having to do this for csh, but it should be a similar solution...as I recall you have to alias the cd command to update the prompt. So something like
"'alias cd '\!* ; set prompt="`hostname`:$cwd % "'

It's a kludge, but it works. This site might also help: http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/hepix/wg/scri...ells/user.html

[coltrane]

good link

[kenshi]

Out of curiosity, what OS exactly are you running?

[Killer_Penguin]

Solaris. I got it fixed though... there are some things that Bash has as system variables, that other shells don't.... but like I said, it's all working.