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

Question

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

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

And the prompt displays: hostname:/fu

Answer 1

Try this:

PS1="\H:\W"

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