Command prompt = pwd

Question

Hi,
On one of our old development systems, when I use a terminal as root, for any command I execute the command prompt displays the path to the directory I'm in: /export/home/java/ # which is very convenient. How does one set this up? Is this dependent on the shell used?
thanks

Answer 1

This is our */etc/profile* to accomplish that:
HISTTIMEFORMAT="[%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S (%a)] "
HISTSIZE=5000
HISTFILESIZE=5000
export HISTTIMEFORMAT HISTFILESIZE HISTSIZE
case "$0" in
-sh)
  UID=`id|cut -d'=' -f2|cut -d'(' -f1`
  UNAME=`$WHOAMI`
  PROMPT_CHAR=`if [ $UID -eq 0 ]; then echo '#'; else echo '$'; fi`
  PS1="_______________________________________________
[$OS $OSVER/sh] `who am i|cut -d' ' -f1`@$HOSTNAME
$PROMPT_CHAR "
  export PS1 HOSTNAME OSTYPE PROMPT_CHAR UNAME UID EDITOR PAGER JAVA_HOME
-bash)
  UNAME=`$WHOAMI`
  PS1='________________________________________________\n[$OS $OSVER/bash] $UNAME@$HOSTNAME:$PWD\n\$ '
  PROMPT_CHAR="\$"
  export PS1 UNAME ESDITOR PAGER JAVA_HOME
-ksh)
  UID=`id|cut -d'=' -f2|cut -d'(' -f1`
  UNAME=`$WHOAMI`
  PROMPT_CHAR=`if [ $UID -eq 0 ]; then echo '#'; else echo '$'; fi`
  PS1="________________________________________________
[\$OS \$OSVER/ksh] \$UNAME@\$HOSTNAME:\$PWD
$PROMPT_CHAR "
  export PS1 UID UNAME PROMPT_CHAR UNAME EDITOR HOSTNAME PAGER JAVA_HOME
  set -o emacs
-jsh)
-csh)
esac
...Cheers
--Andreas