$cwd in prompt???

[Simon McClenahan]

In article <JC.91Jun18021304 at raven.bu.edu>, jc at raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) writes:
|> >>>>> On 18 Jun 91 03:41:07 GMT, bjsvec at cats.ucsc.edu (Brandon Jason Svec) said:
|> ||> Can someone tell me how to get my prompt to show the current working 
|> ||> directory?
|> ||> I have tried something like this:
|> ||> alias cd "cd;set prompt = $cwd"  # so it will update each time I cd
|> ||> set prompt = $cwd
|> 
|> Well, a basic solution to this would be this alias which could go in
|> either your .alias file if you have one, or .login:
|> 
|> alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt = "$HOST [$cwd] % "'
|> 
|> which gives me when I am in my home directory:
|> 
|> raven [/u4/home/jc] % 
|> 
I have this in my .cshrc ....

a       setprompt       'set prompt="[`hostname`:`pwd` -\\!] " '
setprompt
a       cd      'chdir \!* && setprompt ; ls -r -t'


of course, the ls -r -t is just a nice reverse-time listing, which is usually
the first think I want to do when I change directories

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