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From: zben@umd5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sources,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Prompt wars, revisited.
Message-ID: <1500@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: Tue, 31-Mar-87 15:35:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 31 15:35:57 1987
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Reply-To: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
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Summary: Much shorter version is just as fast

This is what I am using now:

   alias set_prompt 'set prompt="${hostname}[\\!] `dirs|sed -e '\''s| .*||'\'' -e '\''s|.*[^/]\(/[^/]*/[^/]*\)|...\1|'\''` % "'
   set hostname=`hostname | sed -e 's/\..*//'`
   alias cd 'cd \!*; set_prompt'
   alias pushd 'pushd \!*; set_prompt'
   alias popd 'popd \!*; set_prompt'
   set_prompt

I refuse to do a "shar" for a six line posting...
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