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From: emb978@leah.Albany.Edu ( Eric M. Boehm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How to have PS1 evaluated after each "cd"
Message-ID: <551@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 31 Dec 87 17:07:52 GMT
References: <574@ambush.UUCP> <1876@netsys.UUCP>
Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
Lines: 17
Summary: Setting path in prompt in csh


	In article <1876@netsys.UUCP>, lee@netsys.UUCP (Lee Chen) writes:
> 
>   Not So Long Ago there was a discussion about how to have the present
> working directory evaluated and displayed as part of the PS1 prompt.
> Would anyone (or two :-) care to summarize on effective solutions to
> this "problem" via ksh, csh, sh, *sh script or C ?

I use the following in .cshrc to set current working directory in the
prompt.

alias cd 'set oldwd=$cwd; chdir \!*; set prompt="\! <$cwd>" '

set prompt=\! <$cwd>" is also in .login to set initial prompt.

Eric M. Boehm
EMB978@ALBNY1VX.BITNET
EMB978@LEAH.ALBANY.EDU