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From: jkmedcal@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jeff Medcalf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: pwd prompts in unix
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.140512.6143@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 24 Jun 91 14:05:12 GMT
References: <27275@adm.brl.mil>
Organization: No, it isn't really. (University of Oklahoma, ECN)
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ketell@tolkien (Gregory Ketell) writes:

>CSH:
>	Create two aliases in your .cshrc file
>		alias cd	'cd \!*;promp'
>		alias promp	'set prompt = "`hostname`:`pwd` ! > "'
>	This will result in a prompt such as   tolkien:/usr/bin 23 > 
>	which tells you which machine you are currently on, your path, and
>	what history command you are on.

This could be done in a single alias:

	alias cd 'cd \!* ; set prompt = "`hostname`:`pwd` ! > "'

and then follow this with a cd . command (which would stay in the cwd but
set the prompt.

In tcsh, I use the following to shell commands in my .cshrc:

set prompt=%m\[%c\]\{%!\}\:
set prompt2=%m\[%c\]\{%!\}\?

%m is replaced by the machine name, %c is replaced by the last element of the
cwd, and %! is replaced by the history number.

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