.Va PS1

may include any of the following formatting sequences,

which are replaced by the given information:

.Bl -tag -width indent

.It Li \eH

The local hostname

.It Li \eh

The fully-qualified hostname

.It Li \eW

The final component of the current working directory

.It Li \ew

The entire path of the current working directory

.It Li \e$

Superuser status.

.Dq Li " $ "

for normal users and

.Dq Li "# "

for superusers.

.It Li \e\e

A literal backslash

.El

.Va PS2

may include any of the formatting sequences from

.Va PS1 .