How to custom display prompt in KornShell to show hostname and current directory?

unix shell environment-variables customization ksh
daveslab picture daveslab · Jul 23, 2009 · Viewed 78.7k times · Source

I am using KornShell (ksh) on Solaris and currently my PS1 env var is:

PS1="${HOSTNAME}:\${PWD} \$ "

And the prompt displays: hostname:/full/path/to/current/directory $

However, I would like it to display: hostname:directory $

In other words, how can I display just the hostname and the name of the current directory, i.e. tmp or ~ or public_html etc etc?

Answer

Rudi Bierach picture Rudi Bierach · Jul 23, 2009

From reading the ksh man page you want

PS1="${HOSTNAME}:\${PWD##*/} \$ "

Tested on default ksh on SunOS 5.8

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