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From: yzarn@lhdsy1.chevron.com (Philip Yzarn de Louraille)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: $cwd in prompt???
Keywords: C-Shell
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Date: 18 Jun 91 18:30:38 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

alias cd      cd \!\* \; set prompt=`echo $cwd`
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