Built-in String Processing?

[Joe Smith]

In article <1990Oct27.215051.14085 at midway.uchicago.edu> phd_ivo at gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>	alias cd                'cd \!* && set prompt="\! ${cwd}> "'
>Unfortunately, this gives me a rather long string.

Use $variable:t to get the tail (the name after the last "/") and use
$variable:h to get the head (everything before the last "/").

alias cd    'cd \!*; set cwdh=$cwd:h; set prompt="($cwdh:t/$cwd:t) $myprompt"'
alias pushd 'pushd \!*; cd .'
alias popd  'popd \!*; cd .'

Or go read the Frequently Asked Questions posting in the "newuser" and
"announce" newsgroups.
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