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From: bjsvec@cats.ucsc.edu (Brandon Jason Svec)
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Subject: cwd in promt (summary)
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Date: 18 Jun 91 22:21:55 GMT
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Thanks for all the prompt responses to my prompt question.  Here is a short 
summary of the first three responses I got.

I personally recommend the second one since it short and sweet.

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	alias pwd 'echo $cwd'
	alias cd 'cd \!*; set prompt="`hostname`:$cwd>"'
	alias popd 'popd \!*; set prompt="`hostname`:$cwd>"'
	alias pushd 'popd \!*; set prompt="`hostname`:$cwd>"'
Thanks to: Kees denHartigh
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	alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt = "$HOST [$cwd] % "'

Thanks to: James Cameron
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alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt="`whoami`@`hostname`:`truncdir.$ARCH` [\\!] "'
cd .

which gives me something like this:

steve@orchid:.../tina/modules/sd [7]

I have a little program called "truncdir", which prints out a string containing the last three components
of the path.  Here's what it looks like:

main()
{
   register int pos,num_dirs;
   register char directory[100];

   getwd(directory);

   pos = strlen( directory );
   num_dirs = 1;

   while( num_dirs <= 3 && --pos > 0 )
      if( directory[pos] == '/' )
         num_dirs++;
   if( pos > 0 )
      printf( "..." );
   printf( &directory[pos] );
}

Install this program with the sticky bit set so it stays resident, and it works great!


Thanks to: Steve Sandke

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brandon@cats.ucsc.edu