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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DOS Style shell prompt
Date: 21 Oct 1995 12:34:41 +0100
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Michael Constant <mconst@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>You can do it easily in tcsh by putting the proper sequences in your prompt
>(RTFM), and you can hack it in any shell like this:
>
>alias cd 'cd \!* ; set prompt = `pwd`"% "'
Or for plain /bin/sh, best do it as a shell function from inside
~/.profile (or $ENV, if you prefer this):
$ cd()
> {
> chdir ${1:-${HOME}}
> PS1="$(pwd)» "
> }
$ cd
/home/joerg» cd /tmp
/tmp» cd /usr/local/bin
/usr/local/bin» ^D
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)