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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: prompt changing on the fly
Message-ID: <5150@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Jan-87 14:33:26 EST
Article-I.D.: mimsy.5150
Posted: Thu Jan 22 14:33:26 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Jan-87 21:45:33 EST
References: <410@moncskermit.oz>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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(There is one good thing about the snow that shut down D.C. so that
 I am missing all the Usenix talks.  At least I get to catch up on
 news!  :-) )

In article <410@moncskermit.oz> john@moncskermit.oz (John Carey) writes:
>Here is an alias for csh which replaces cd to change the prompt
>when moving directories
>
>The only problem I have found is that it must have an argument

(The cure for this is to use !*.)

>	alias nd cd \!\$\;set prompt=\`pwd\`\' \'

Here is one I have used in the past.  It preserves the C shell's
tilde notation.

	alias set_prompt 'set prompt="[\\!] `dirs|awk '\''{print "\$1"}'\''` "'
	alias cd 'cd \!*; set_prompt'
	alias pushd 'pushd \!*; set_prompt'
	alias popd 'popd \!*; set_prompt'
	set_prompt
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