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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!uhog.mit.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!tk2x+ From: Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: pwd in the prompt Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 15:05:38 -0400 Organization: Freshman, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 14 Distribution: world Message-ID: <ghcPO2q00iM8I0flE9@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <2nrmmu$lql@hermes.unt.edu> <2ns0kl$gu9@Germany.EU.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: po5.andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <2ns0kl$gu9@Germany.EU.net> bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes: > In article <2nrmmu$lql@hermes.unt.edu>, wilsonm@dale.hsc.unt.EDU (Mike Wilson)\ > writes: > |> Simply, I want to have the path in the prompt, I have tried several > |> different ways but have yet to get it to work correctly. Does anyone out > |> there have something I can use? > > Not me; alas, I know for sure that this is in one of the comp.unix FAQ's. > why don't you get tcsh and read the man page for it? it describes how to put the path in the prompt. there are different options, i.e. for using/not using ~ as a shortcut, etc. tcsh is cool anyway (if you like csh).