Printing Working Directory in CSH (or SH for that matter)
Carl W. Bergerson
carl at p4tustin.UUCP
Fri May 10 03:40:49 AEST 1991
sginn at hlthnt.UUCP (Steve Ginn) writes:
>In article <46 at swatty.UUCP> root at swatty.UUCP (Superuser) writes:
> Question:
> Does anybody know how to set the prompt in csh so that the current directory
>
>Try the following in the .cshrc file:
>
> alias setprompt 'set prompt="`pwd` \\!%> "'
> setprompt
Don't forget to alias cd so that it calls setprompt after the cd.
If I remember correctly this subject was addressed in Unix World,
probably the Wizards Grabbag column, in the last quarter or half of 1989.
There might be an answer for sh there.
Carl
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