pwd prompts in unix

[Mike Lijewski]

In article <1991Jun24.140512.6143 at uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> jkmedcal at uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jeff Medcalf) writes:
>
>ketell at tolkien (Gregory Ketell) writes:
>
>>CSH:
>>	Create two aliases in your .cshrc file
>>		alias cd	'cd \!*;promp'
>>		alias promp	'set prompt = "`hostname`:`pwd` ! > "'
>
>This could be done in a single alias:
>
>	alias cd 'cd \!* ; set prompt = "`hostname`:`pwd` ! > "'
>
>and then follow this with a cd . command (which would stay in the cwd but
>set the prompt.

And if you want pushd and popd to work correctly, you'll probably need the
following line:

alias pushd 'pushd \!*; cd .'; alias popd 'popd; cd .';

>Jeff Medcalf   jkmedcal at uokmax.{uucp|ecn.uoknor.edu}    !chinet!uokmax!jkmedcal

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