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From: jpr@jpradley.uucp (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: cwd help needed
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.003741.7588@jpradley.uucp>
Date: 15 Oct 90 00:37:41 GMT
References: <1084@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> <1990Oct6.233758.7959@cjbsys.bdb.com>
Reply-To: jpr@jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Distribution: comp.unix.xenix.sco
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In article <1990Oct6.233758.7959@cjbsys.bdb.com> cliffb@cjbsys.bdb.com (cliff bedore) writes:
>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)?
>
>The following works
>
>	set prompt="`pwd` : " 		# set prompt string
>	alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt = "`pwd` : "'


Some one asked me for a fancy two-line prompt, such as:

	alias cd 'cd \!* ; set prompt="`pwd` \\\
	`tput smso``logname` \\!>`tput rmso`"'

If you really want such a thing, then speed it up:

	set SMSO = `tput smso`
	set RMSO = `tput rmso`
	set LOGNAME = `logname`
	alias cd 'cd \!* ; set prompt = "`pwd` \\\
	$SMSO$LOGNAME \\!>$RMSO"'
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 Jean-Pierre Radley          HIGH-Q	     jpr@jpradley	CIS: 72160,1341