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hi, my login shell is sh. but i cant set my prompt to my current working directory. i have set this in my .profile. it is as follows : PS1="yls / "`hostname`:`whoami`'$PWD'">";export PS1 what is wrong

Name: Frank
Date: December 20, 2002 at 02:33:51 Pacific

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Make sure that the commands "whoami" and "hosntame" are set in the path before you set the PS1 variable. Regards Frank

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