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From: rob@iccdev.indcomp.com (Rob Rich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: $cwd in prompt???
Message-ID: <591@iccdev.indcomp.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 15:02:13 GMT
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Organization: Industrial Computer Corp., Atlanta, GA
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jerovh@neabbs.UUCP (JEROEN V.HILST) writes:

>For me (csh shell) this works, (prints a command-number and the dir):
>alias cd 'cd \!*; set prompt = "! `pwd`> "'
>set prompt = "! `pwd`> "
>best of luck.

_Watch Out_ using this on an HP9000/8xx machine. If you ever accidently 
hit the "ENTER" key instead of the "RETURN" key (an HP block mode feature),
you will create all kinds of bogus files in your current directory.

It seems the "ENTER" key (block mode send), causes the prompt line to use
the '>' symbol as an I/O redirection, writing to any file that you typed as
a command :-( . I found this out the _hard_ way.

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