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From: kevinc%bearcat.lim.tek.com@relay.cs.net (Kevin Cosgrove 627-5212)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: current pwd in prompt
Message-ID: <11724@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 9 Feb 88 01:00:01 GMT
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Dave,

> Can anyone explain to me how to get my prompt to be the current directory? I
> have tried several methods without any success. It seems that no matter what
> method I try, the prompt is evaluated once and never changes.
> 
> Just in case it matters, I am on an AT&T 3B2/400 running korn shell under UNIX
> System V.3.1.
> 
> Thanks,
>	Dave Mensing
>
>	mensing.henr801c@xerox.com
>	(716) 427-6423

	I use the following alias with  C shell.  I put the following line
	in my ~/.cshrc file.

	alias  cd 'chdir \!*;set prompt="[`whoami`@`hostname`-$cwd:t] "'
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	Kevin Cosgrove           	Tektronix, Inc.
	11K Plug-Ins Project Leader	PO Box 500, M/S 47-092
	LIM Product Test Engineering 	Beaverton, OR  97077
	kevinc@bearcat.LIM.TEK.COM	(503)-627-5212
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