current pwd in prompt
Kevin Cosgrove 627-5212
kevinc%bearcat.lim.tek.com at relay.cs.net
Tue Feb 9 11:00:01 AEST 1988
Dave,
> Can anyone explain to me how to get my prompt to be the current directory? I
> have tried several methods without any success. It seems that no matter what
> method I try, the prompt is evaluated once and never changes.
>
> Just in case it matters, I am on an AT&T 3B2/400 running korn shell under UNIX
> System V.3.1.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Mensing
>
> mensing.henr801c at xerox.com
> (716) 427-6423
I use the following alias with C shell. I put the following line
in my ~/.cshrc file.
alias cd 'chdir \!*;set prompt="[`whoami`@`hostname`-$cwd:t] "'
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Kevin Cosgrove Tektronix, Inc.
11K Plug-Ins Project Leader PO Box 500, M/S 47-092
LIM Product Test Engineering Beaverton, OR 97077
kevinc at bearcat.LIM.TEK.COM (503)-627-5212
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