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From: jacob@mayhem.com (Jacob DeGlopper)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Unix/FreeBSD versions of DOS utilities
Date: 8 May 1995 17:26:34 -0400
Organization: Mayhem Communications
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In article <duncD89otE.Dsy@netcom.com>, Kevet Duncombe <dunc@netcom.com> wrote:
>Da_worm@cris.com (DAWORM) wrote:
>On 7 May 1995 23:43:17 GMT, you wrote:
>
>>PROMPT - Lets you set a customized command prompt with features like
>>showing the current directory (with tree all the way back to the root, as
>>in "c:\progs\foo\bar"), setting color, showing date and time, ect. I can
>>change my text prompt in my login script, but have yet to find a way to
>>make it show me the directory I am in.
>
>It's a bit roundabout, but this is what I use in my .cshrc:
> alias setprompt 'set prompt="${cwd}% "'
> alias cd 'cd \!*; setprompt'
tcsh and bash both allow you to do this in one statement.
From my .bash_profile:
export PS1="\u@\h \w \\$ "
I also put the current directory in the title bar of my xterm:
cd () { builtin cd $1; title }
title () { echo "^[]2;$USER@$HOST $PWD^G^[]1;$HOST:$PWD^G" }
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Jacob DeGlopper, EMT-A, N3RHI
UUNET Technologies, Inc.
jacob@uunet.uu.net