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From: skeeve@hpb.cis.pitt.edu (John Huffman)
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Subject: Re: $cwd in prompt???
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Date: 18 Jun 91 15:16:54 GMT
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In article <17153@darkstar.ucsc.edu> bjsvec@cats.ucsc.edu (Brandon Jason Svec) writes:
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>Can someone tell me how to get my prompt to show the current working directory?
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>I have tried something like this:
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>alias cd "cd;set prompt = $cwd"  # so it will update each time I cd
>set prompt = $cwd

I use the following in my .cshrc:

alias setprompt 'set prompt="`/usr/ucb/hostname`:`pwd`#\\!>"'
alias cd 'chdir \!* && setprompt'
alias pushd 'pushd \!* && setprompt'
alias popd 'popd \!* && setprompt'
setprompt

This takes care of at least most of the cases.

						- John Huffman