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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: cd function
Message-ID: <2023@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au>
Date: 18 Feb 91 23:33:22 GMT
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The V8 shell is the way to go:

    cd()
    {
	builtin cd $1 &&
	case "$1" in
	'')
	    PS1="% " ;;
	..|*/..)
	    PS1="`basename \`/bin/pwd\``% " ;;
	/)
	    PS1="/% " ;;
	*/*)
	    PS1="`basename $1`% " ;;
	*)
	    PS1="$1% " ;;
	esac
    }

Of course, as Doug said, you need `builtin' or you have to rename the function.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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