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From: geoff@ncr-sd.UUCP (Geoff Walton )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re:  prompt changing on the fly
Message-ID: <1310@ncr-sd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Jan-87 10:46:29 EST
Article-I.D.: ncr-sd.1310
Posted: Thu Jan 22 10:46:29 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Jan-87 22:41:25 EST
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Reply-To: geoff@ncr-sd.UUCP (0000-Geoff Walton )
Organization: NCR Corporation, San Diego
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Due to the facts that I have accounts on four (five?) different
machines, and often forget what directory (let alone what
machine) I'm in, I find the following aliases helpful:

alias cd    'cd \!* ; set prompt="[1m\\!:`uuname -l`:[$cwd][0m "'
alias popd	'popd ; set prompt="[1m\\!:`uuname -l`:[$cwd][0m "'
alias pushd 'pushd \!* ; set prompt="[1m\\!:`uuname -l`:[$cwd][0m "'

You might want to remove the escape sequences ([1m and [0m),
as the do nothing but highlight the prompt on my vt 100, but the
resulting prompt gives you:

history#:machine_name:[current_directory]

Ain't no big deal, but it helps.

:r all_usual_disclaimers

Geoff Walton
NCR E&M San Diego
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