Shell Programming and Scripting

"cd" is a build-in command so you will need to create a wrapper around "cd" in order to achieve it - which means u need to "alias" cd.

So, something like this "may" solve your problem (thats what I thought atleast)
alias cd='cd \!*; export PS1="[$(whoami) $(pwd)]$(echo \\n$) "'

But the issue is you cannot pass arguments in k-shell so, "cd \!*" wouldn't work.

This would be possible in csh I guess.

You will need to enclose this in a function and then alias "cd" to the function name:

So, in your .profile do this like:

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export PS1="[$(whoami) $(pwd)]$(echo \\n$) "

function newcd {
"cd" "$@"
ret=$?
export PS1="[$(whoami) $(pwd)]$(echo \\n$) "
return $ret
}

alias cd=newcd
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Enjoy !

Which version of ksh? There are at least 3 major versions of ksh. Press Ctrl-V for the version.

That said, this will work in most shells:

PS1='$USER $PWD
$ '

Note that the value is enclosed in single quotes so that the variables are expanded when the prompt is printed, not when they are assigned to PS1.

Put this in your .kshrc

Code:

HBRI="`tput bold`"
INV="`tput rev`"
NRM="`tput sgr0`"
UNAME=`whoami`
PS1="$HBRI$INV$UNAME:$NRM$INV\${PWD#\${PWD%?/*/*/*}??}\>$NRM"