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From: jeffl@comix.UUCP (Jeff Liebermann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Printing Working Directory in CSH (or SH for that matter)
Summary: cwd in prompt
Keywords: csh prompt alias cd
Message-ID: <112@comix.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 91 08:31:48 GMT
References: <46@swatty.UUCP>
Distribution: usa
Organization: COmmittee to Maintain Independent Xenix
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In article <46@swatty.UUCP> root@swatty.UUCP (Superuser) writes:
>Does anybody know how to set the prompt in csh so that the current directory
>name (eg., /usr/lib/uucp) is printed (kind of like a dos $p$g), also can this
>be done is sh...

For csh, I use:

set	myport = `tty`			# get tty name
setenv	PORT	`basename $myport`	# remove /dev from login port
setenv	LOGNAME	`logname`		# get login name
					# redefine the cd command
alias	cd	'cd \!*; set prompt="[$PORT] [$LOGNAME] `pwd` -> "'
cd					# required to start prompt


For ksh, I use:

LOGNAME=`logname`		# Keep the logname
MACHINE=`uuname -l`		# Get the name of the machine
# MACHINE=`hostname`		# Get the name of the machine
TTY=`tty`			# Name of tty login port
PORT=`basename $TTY`		# Remove the /dev/ part
PS1='[$MACHINE $PORT] [$LOGNAME] $PWD =>  '	# set the main prompt


For sh, I suffer without...

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