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From: "Peter J. Bartlett" <peteb@fusionmm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Customizing csh
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 16:23:37 -0600
Organization: Fusion MicroMedia Corp.
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Jim Service wrote:
>
> conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes:
>
> >
> > In article <5kkcqt$2e5@news.mel.aone.net.au>,
> > nigel@palms.nq.net (Nigel Gorry) writes:
> > >
> > > "Chris Taylor" <cstaylor@dawtech.com> wrote:
> > >> I would like to see some examples of csh.cshrc, csh.login and .cshrc files.
> > >> For one, I would really like to know how to set the prompt to show the
> > >> current working directory, a problem that continues to allude me. Thanks.
> > >
> > > alias cd 'chdir \!* && set prompt="${cwd}$ "'
> > > set prompt="${cwd}$ "
> >
Don't forget to alias "pushd" and "popd" as well...
Yuck. Another vote for "get tcsh".
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Peter J. Bartlett email: peteb@fusionmm.com
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