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From: hazela@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Jose Reynaldo Setti)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: prompt in cshell
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Date: 8 Apr 90 21:31:32 GMT
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Some time ago there was a request for a prompt that
would tell where in the subdirectory structure you
were.

This is the way I do it, using the cshell. I wanted to
now whose account and which terminal I am on -- 
in a 386/ix SVR3.2. So I put the following lines in
.cshrc:

	set TTY='tty'
	set TTY="'basename ${TTY}'"
	set USER='logname'
	alias cd 'cd \!*; set prompt="${USER}@{TTY}:`pwd`>"'
	cd .

this gives me a prompt like:
root@console:/usr >
or
jrs@vt1:/usr/jrs/foo >

It should work if I typed all '"'s in the right places. If anycone
knows how to get a similar prompt in a better way, let me know.


jr setti	       hazela@watserv1.waterloo.edu [uwaterloo.ca]
the transport group -- dept. of civil engineering -- u of waterloo
waterloo, ontario, canada N2L 3G1