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From: yzarn@lhdsy1.chevron.com (Philip Yzarn de Louraille)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can value of environmental var appear in prompt?
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Date: 18 Jun 91 18:24:21 GMT
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In article <3406@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> creider@csd.uwo.ca (Chet Creider) writes:
>How can one make the value of an environmental variable appear in a
>C-shell prompt? While using screen, I often become confused as to which
>window I'm in. Screen maintains an environmental variable WINDOW giving
>the number of the current window. Can this value be put into a prompt?

set prompt=`echo $WINDOW` 

But why would you want to do this? It looks *ugly* :-)

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