$cwd in prompt???

[James Cameron]

>>>>> 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

||> email please...
||> thanks,
||> brandon


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] % 


The above alias can be modified for X11 users to change the title 
and name of the current xterm.


jc

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