Re: Setting Prompt
> This wasn't what I wanted I only want the current working directory to
> show. I took a look at the man page for bash. It said that "\w" would
> list my working directory. So I tried the following:
>
> If I use,
> export PS1='\w:\\$ '
>
> I get,
> ~:$
^
This is your working directory - ~/ is short for your home directory. If
you did cd /etc/init.d, then the prompt would say
/etc/init.d:$
Matthew
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