Getting UNIX prompt to display current directory

[Derek Lee-Wo]

In article <5582 at ncsugn.ncsu.edu> fristens at ncsugn.ncsu.edu (Brian Fristensky) writes:
>In MS-DOS there is a very easy way to get the current directory displayed as
>part of the prompt  (prompt $p).  In UNIX, there is certainly no
>straightforward way to do this.  Can anyone think of a tricky way?  My

This works only in BSD.
	alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt="[`/bin/pwd`] "'

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