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From: yakker@ucrmath.UCR.EDU (matt robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Prompt as Current Directory?
Message-ID: <2611@ucrmath.UCR.EDU>
Date: 17 Nov 89 07:46:23 GMT
References: <Nov.16.00.56.12.1989.9985@paul.rutgers.edu> <1637@pyrltd.UUCP>
Reply-To: yakker@ucrmath.UUCP (matt robinson)
Followup-To: yakker@ucrmath.ucr.edu
Organization: University of California, Riverside
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==>In article <Nov.16.00.56.12.1989.9985@paul.rutgers.edu> 
==>broadman@paul.rutgers.edu (Alan Broadman) writes:
==>How can you get the UNIX prompt to always reflect the path to the 
==>current directory. 

This is our school's method (Recipe #3,402) :-)  It also includes
the path, username, and current history (for csh.)  Hope this
helps.

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# Setting the Prompt and Changing Directories.
set hostname = `hostname`
set username = `whoami`
set fromname = `who am i | awk '{print $1}' | sed 's/^.*\\\!//'`
if ("$fromname" != "$username") then
	set username="$username"' ('"$fromname"')'
endif
alias heyyou 'set prompt = "$hostname : $username : `pwd`\\
\! >"'
set prompt = "$hostname : $username : `pwd`\
\! >"
a cd 'cd \!*;heyyou'
a pushd  'pushd \!*;heyyou'
a popd  'popd;heyyou'
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P.S.  You should have read the newusers newsgroup before posting this...
      Makes life easier on all of us.
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yakker@ucrmath.ucr.edu |  Matt Robinson, University of California at Riverside
..!ucsd!ucrmath!yakker |     Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
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