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Old 12-18-2007
Show path name
Hello I'm new to this forum. So please spare me!

I'm using SCO UnixWare 7.1.4 and created a few accounts. So far so good.

When I login I see: $.
But here I want to see (for example),
/home
25$

So I want to see the pathname where I am without each time typing pwd
# 2  
Old 12-18-2007
In your login .profile or .bashrc file add this:
Code:
PS1=`hostname`':$PWD> '

This shows the name of the host and path - get rid of `hostname` if you do not want the host name.
# 3  
Old 12-19-2007
Hi Jim,

Thanks for your input. Last night I found somewhere else another solution and it's just what I wanted,

Quote:
#
# Cd alias which sets the user prompt
#
if whence _cd >|/dev/null
then
: already set up, do nothing
else
alias cd=_cd

_cd() # CD function
{
cd $1 $2
case $LOGNAME in # include command number in prompt
root) PS1="!# " ;;
*) PS1="`pwd`
!$ " ;;
esac
}
fi

_cd $HOME # Start at home directory
 
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