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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Path in prompt !!?? help!
Date: 16 May 1996 12:18:21 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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"M.V. van der Star" <star> wrote:
^^^^^^ Please have your news software fixed.
> Hi, this may be a dumb question but I have recently installed FreeBSD 2.05
> and I wonder how to get my prompt to display the current directory !
This has already been discussed here. Basically, for standard shells,
you have to create aliases (or shell functions) replacing the existing
cd/pushd/popd shell builtins. (Make sure to use the chdir builtin
inside a cd() function in the Bourne shell, or your shell will die
from endless recursion and eventually a stack overflow.)
For shells like tcsh or bash, there's a bunch of configuration options
for the shell prompt. Refer to the appropriate man page.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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