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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!cks.ssd.k12.wa.us!netnews1.nwnet.net!alfa02.medio.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgiblab!wrdis02.robins.af.mil!rcp6.elan.af.mil!newshub.nosc.mil!dog.ee.lbl.gov!news.cs.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!kurto From: kurto@cc.usu.edu (Kurt Olsen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Unix/FreeBSD versions of DOS utilities Message-ID: <1995May8.113446.50129@cc.usu.edu> Date: 8 May 95 11:34:46 MDT References: <3ojlul$r3c@warp.cris.com> Organization: Utah State University Lines: 37 In article <3ojlul$r3c@warp.cris.com>, Da_worm@cris.com (DAWORM) writes: > PROMPT - Lets you set a customized command prompt with features like I put the following 2 lines in my .login: set prompt="`/bin/hostname | sed -e s/.declab.usu.edu//g`:`pwd | sed -e s\[/u/students/kurto\[kurto\[g`> " alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt="`/bin/hostname | sed -e s/.declab.usu.edu//g`:`pwd | sed -e s\[/u/students/kurto\[kurto\[g`> "' (Admittedly this is on a decstation, but I've got the exact same thing on my freebsd box at home.) The situation is that I'm in a lab of twenty machines with names like paradise.declab.usu.edu, petersboro.declab.usu.edu, etc. My prompt looks like this: paradise:kurto> (if I'm in my home directory) paradise:kurto/bin> (if I'm in my home bin directory) paradise:/usr/bin> (if I'm in /usr/bin) The 'alias cd ...' changes what the cd command does, and the 'set prompt ...' set's up my path when I first login. > NCD - This program, when first ran, creates a database of sorts of all of I'm not positive, but check the 'cdpath' variable, I think it does something similar. > RIR - Actually, ls handles 90% of RIR, but the one thing RIR does is Hrm. Haven't seen anything like this. -- Kurt Olsen (kurto@cc.usu.edu) <a href="http://www.mcs.usu.edu/~kurto/">Me & my Atari Lynx</a> archive.