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From: winterss@psu-cs.UUCP (Stafford Winters )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re:  `pwd` in Shell prompt
Message-ID: <589@psu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 3 Apr 88 20:36:18 GMT
References: <12752@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: winterss@psu-cs.UUCP (Stafford Winters (CS 457))
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State University; Portland OR
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In article <12752@brl-adm.ARPA> parrish@nadc.arpa (D. Parrish) writes:
>	CSH:
>		To set your prompt variable to show the current path:
>			set prompt="`pwd`"
>			alias setprompt 'set prompt="`pwd`"'
>			alias cd 'cd \!* ; setprompt'
>			alias pd 'pushd \!* ; setprompt'
>			alias popd 'popd \!* ; setprompt'
>	
   I suggest using the string that is already calculated for you:
            set prompt="$cwd"
            alias cd 'cd \!* ; set prompt="$cwd"'
            alias pushd 'pushd \!* ; set prompt="$cwd"'
   etc.
   I find it helpful to highlight my directory as well.  If you always use
the same type of terminal, then you can insert the appropriate control
sequences to do the highlighting.
>	
>	CSH:	Insert the prompt=... stuff into your '.cshrc' file.
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