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#! rnews 966 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.campus.mci.net!not-for-mail From: Anthony Jenkins <ajenkins@auburn.campus.mci.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Prompt won't show `pwd` Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 23:20:32 -0600 Organization: CampusMCI Lines: 7 Message-ID: <327D7D20.1467@auburn.campus.mci.net> Reply-To: ajenkins@auburn.campus.mci.net NNTP-Posting-Host: s05-pm02.auburn.campus.mci.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) How do I get my shell prompt (csh or sh) to show the current working directory every time it is printed? Setting prompt to "`pwd`#" only sets the prompt to the directory I am in when I issue the set command; cd-ing to another directory doesn't affect the prompt. Thanks in advance. Anthony