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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!esmeralda.access.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!news2.EUnet.fr!newsbr.eunet.fr!usenet From: Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Prompt won't show `pwd` Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 21:09:40 GMT Organization: Groupe SEDI / Agorus SA / OSI SARL Lines: 23 Message-ID: <55lpis$20h@newsbr.eunet.fr> References: <327D7D20.1467@auburn.campus.mci.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.107.196.155 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Anthony Jenkins <ajenkins@auburn.campus.mci.net> wrote: >How do I get my shell prompt (csh or sh) to show the current working >directory every time it is printed? Setting prompt to "`pwd`#" only >sets the prompt to the directory I am in when I issue the set command; >cd-ing to another directory doesn't affect the prompt. Thanks in >advance. Using ksh, you can do the following: export PS1='$PWD'"# " The quotes around $PWD are standard quotes, not backquotes. Using csh, the usual method is to define an alias for cd that will be called at each cd call instead of the builtin cd. The alias will perform the cd and reset PS1. ------------------------- Frederic G. MARAND Agorus SA / OSI SARL Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr -------------------------