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From: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Printing Working Directory in CSH (or SH for that matter)
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.201522.972@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 29 Apr 91 20:15:22 GMT
References: <46@swatty.UUCP>
Reply-To: steven@Transact.COM
Organization: Transact Software
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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...

Here's how I do it - works quite nicely, and the delay when changing 
directories is minimal:

    set UID = `id | sed 's/uid=\([0-9][0-9]*\).*/\1/'`
    if ($UID == 0) then
        set uname = "`uname -n`-ROOT"
    else
        set uname = `uname -n`
    endif

    alias cd 'chdir \!* ; set prompt = "-${uname}:`pwd`-\! > "'
    cd .

note that the final "cd ." is executed in .cshrc when the alias is set
up so that the prompt will be set the first time.
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