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From: alex@am.sublink.org (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Current directory in the ksh prompt?
Message-ID: <1991May05.002435.213@am.sublink.org>
Date: 5 May 91 00:24:35 GMT
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mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
	...
:directory.  The "unalias cd; cd $1; alias cd=_cd" part could be
:replaced with "\cd $1", I believe; otherwise, this answer is almost
:perfect.

One little tidbit to push it 0.0001 nearer to perfection: change that
$1 to $*, so you don't lose the ksh feature to say, e.g., 'cd lib spool'
to change from /usr/lib/uucp to /usr/spool/uucp...
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