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From: mi@bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DOS Style shell prompt
Date: 20 Oct 1995 03:37:20 GMT
Organization: Boston University
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Some time ago (Thu, 19 Oct 1995 18:11:16 GMT) honorable Phil Taylor,
residing at phil@zipmail.co.uk wrote:
|This is very usefull (unless you have gone very deep in the directory
|structure) and saves a pwd every time you do an rm -r * . It helps
|just to check where you are. I know people that have accidently done
|rm -r * in / because they were logged in as root on an SCO system and
|had typed cd on its own just before !!!!! (best thing to do with SCO
|anyway 8-).
This are my settings (for tcsh, for csh, you'll have to change a bit),
if anyone can suggest something better -- please! This is ugly :-) :
alias setprompt 'set prompt="%m:${PWD}\(\!\) "'
alias cd "chdir \!* && setprompt"
alias ppd "popd \!* && setprompt"
alias psd "pushd \!* && setprompt"
%m stays for machine name (in csh -- run hostname first, then make an alias),
! will make it print the sequentinal number of the command.
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