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From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Path in prompt !!?? help!
Date: 16 May 1996 15:50:25 GMT
Organization: ABWAM, Inc.
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In article <DrG8vz.HCE@student.twi.tudelft.nl>, "M.V. van der Star" <star> says:
>
>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 !
>I have tried things like (from the top of my head) :
>
>set prompt = "$cwd -> "
>
>this sets the prompt to the directory I'm currently in but doesn't change when
>I move to a different directory !
>
>Please help, and if you can, also send your reply to me through e-mail.
>Thanks!!
>My e-mail address is : s795238@dutiwy.twi.tudelft.nl
>
>Ciao,
>Menno
>
Here are the pertinent entries in my .cshrc:
alias cd 'chdir \!* && set prompt="`hostname -s`:${cwd}% "'
if ($?prompt) then
set prompt="`hostname -s`:${cwd}% "
endif