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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!zaphod.crihan.fr!univ-lille1.fr!jussieu.fr!centre.univ-orleans.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!frmug.fr.net!renux.frmug.fr.net!keltia.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: pwd in the prompt Date: 11 Apr 1994 21:00:41 +0200 Organization: A Happy FreeBSD-current Usenet Site Lines: 35 Message-ID: <2oc6p7$gr@keltia.frmug.fr.net> References: <2nrmmu$lql@hermes.unt.edu> <ghcPO2q00iM8I0flE9@andrew.cmu.edu> <1994Apr8.132929.9611@gmd.de> <1994Apr11.083609.16557@uts.amdahl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <1994Apr11.083609.16557@uts.amdahl.com>, Alistair G. Crooks <agc@uts.amdahl.com> wrote: >Yes, I used to do the same, but this fails if you use directory stacks, >and push and pop directories will both change to the new directory without >resetting the prompt. If you're a csh fan, switch over to TCSH. It has all the features (even misfeatures :-)) of csh with many many more things like the one you seek. -rw-r--r-- 1 roberto 425904 Jul 17 1993 tcsh-6.04.tar.gz The prompt is automatically managed by tcsh and change as you play with pushd/popd/cd/... The one I use is set prompt="[%S%m%s][%h][%S%.2%s]%# " It gives you a prompt like this if you'not root [keltia][201][~]> and that one [keltia][201][~]# when you're root. The %.2 shows you only the last two component of the path which is very useful when you're in a directory like /usr/src/sys/i386/conf... >Alistair -- Ollivier ROBERT Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net A FreeBSD & PERL addict... PGP 2.3a public key on key-servers Running FreeBSD-current and very happy to do so !