Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!software.mitel.com!sharman!sharman
From: sharman@Software.Mitel.COM (Richard Sharman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Fortune Cookie Prompt
Message-ID: <SHARMAN.91Jun16223748@sharman.Software.Mitel.COM>
Date: 17 Jun 91 02:37:48 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.003223.3384@weyrich.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: orville@weyrich.UUCP's message of 10 Jun 91 00:32:23 GMT

In article <1991Jun10.003223.3384@weyrich.UUCP> orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:

   I would like to set up a fortune-cookie type of program which displays
   a new randomly selected message each time my shell prompts me. It seems
   that I saw some description in a OLD FAQ list about how to include the
   "working directory" in the prompt, but I have lost that FAQ list.


If you can get hold of the tcsh shell, the alias precmd can be set a
command which gets run before the prompt.  Beware, though, if you set
it to something erroneous you may have to hangup to recover.


% alias precmd /usr/games/fortune
"My weight is perfect for my height -- which varies"
% pwd
/auto/home/tools/sharman
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange
protein -- it rejects it.
		-- P. Medawar
% date
Sun Jun 16 22:28:17 EDT 1991
Washington [D.C.] is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
		-- John F. Kennedy
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