custom prompt question
Michael E. Wade
wade at ati.tis.llnl.gov
Thu Jul 28 06:52:46 AEST 1988
In article <3371 at polyslo.UUCP> cmaccarl at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Carl A. MacCarley) writes:
>I'm sure this is a dumb question, but here goes: I wanna get my current
>working directory printed as part of my prompt. The following doesn't do
>it, since cwd is set at login to my root directory.
>
>set prompt="$cwd \!> "
>
>How's it done?
>Thanx,
>-cam
How's this: (I know it's busy, but I've really gotten used to it.)
set uid=`whoami`
set host=`hostname`
set prompt="\
${uid}@${host} [pwd = `pwd`]\
[\!]: "
alias cd 'chdir \!* ; set prompt="\\
${uid}@${host} [pwd = `pwd`]\\
[\\!]: "'
alias pushd 'pushd \!* ; set prompt="\\
${uid}@${host} [pwd = `pwd`]\\
[\\!]: "'
alias popd 'popd \!* ; set prompt="\\
${uid}@${host} [pwd = `pwd`]\\
[\\!]: "'
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