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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit I5.EDS)
Subject: Re: pwd in the prompt
Message-ID: <1994Apr8.132929.9611@gmd.de>
Sender: veit@mururoa (Holger Veit I5.EDS)
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References: <2nrmmu$lql@hermes.unt.edu> <ghcPO2q00iM8I0flE9@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 13:29:29 GMT
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|> > In article <2nrmmu$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?
|> >
For quite a long time I use something like the following in .cshrc:
set prompt='[\!]'$cwd'>'
alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt=\[\!\]$cwd\>'
giving a prompt (with history) like
[53]/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/isa>
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