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From: marquis@roble.com (Roger Marquis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Prompt won't show `pwd`
Date: 6 Nov 1996 01:45:22 GMT
Organization: Roble Systems (http://www.roble.com)
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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.
Try this in your ~/.cshrc:
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
if (! $?tcsh ) then
set filec
alias setprompt 'set prompt="`/usr/ucb/whoami`"@"`hostname`":"`dirs`>"'
alias cd 'cd \!*;setprompt'
setprompt
else
bindkey -v
set autolist
set autoexpand
set correct
if ( "$TERM" == "sun" || "$TERM" == "sun-cmd" || $?win ) then
set prompt="[%\!:%?]%n@%m:%~> "
else
set prompt="%{^[[31m%}[%\!:%?]%{^[[33m%}%n@%m:%{^[[0;35m%}%~>%{^[[0;37m%}
"
endif
endif
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It should give you a prompt with 1) userid, 2) hostname, and 3) the
current directory. In tcsh it will also prepend the current command
number and the last program's exit status.
Roger Marquis