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From: shah@santur.tay1.dec.com (Amitabh Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Pretty prompt
Message-ID: <5270@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 17:15:49 GMT
References: <1991Jun13.163726.10604@umiami.ir.miami.edu> <13562@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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In-reply-to: mckay@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Dwight D. Mckay)

In article <13562@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, mckay@mace (Dwight D. Mckay) writes:
>In article <1991Jun13.163726.10604@umiami.ir.miami.edu>, rfrost@umiami.ir.miami.edu writes:
>|> How do I get a prompt which will always show the current directory.
>|> For example:
>|> 
>|>      /usr/rfrost>
>
>Under csh you could put the following in your .cshrc:
>
>alias cd cd \!$ \; set prompt=\"\`echo \$cwd \| sed \'s\?${home}\?\~\?\'\`\>\ \"
>
>This puts your current path in your prompt, substitution "~" for your home directory whenever you type "cd".
>

Or better yet, get the latest version of tcsh, and use:

set prompt="%~> "

in your .login. You can do many other things with tcsh too!

-amitabh.
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