-- Philip Douglass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The substring extraction of $PWD is ksh specific. You could do it other
> ways, but this way it uses ksh builtins, so it is _fast_
bash and most recent sh imlementations also support the
ksh-style variable munging. bash makes it even simpler
by adding escape sequences for PS1:
\u = user
\h = host
\W = basename( $PWD )
\$ = '#' if SU else '$'.
so:
PS1='\u@\h:\W \$ ';
gives username@hostname:dirname $ for normal users or ending
with '#' if you are SU.
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