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From: cliffb@cjbsys.bdb.com (cliff bedore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: cwd help needed
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.233758.7959@cjbsys.bdb.com>
Date: 6 Oct 90 23:37:58 GMT
References: <1084@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>
Distribution: comp.unix.xenix.sco
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In article <1084@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> creider@uwocsd.uwo.ca (Chet Creider) writes:
>Would someone help a newuser? How does one write the equivalent to
>the familiar:
>
>alias	cd	'cd \!* ; echo $cwd'
>
>i.e., is there an equivalent to $cwd (csh, SCO OS)?
>
>Thanks
>
>Chet Creider
>creider@csd.uwo.ca

The following works


	set prompt="`pwd` : " 		# set prompt string
	alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt = "`pwd` : "'