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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Csh prompt problem
Keywords: csh prompt glob cd
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Date: 6 Feb 89 13:27:05 GMT
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In article <20005@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> laba-3hd@e260-3a.berkeley.edu
(Sam Shen) writes:
>I like to keep my current directory in my prompt.  I do it like this:
>
>(e260-3a) laba-3hd % alias cd
>cd !*; prom
>
>(e260-3a) laba-3hd % alias prom
>set prompt = "($host) ""$cwd:t"" % "
>
>...
>
>[Problems with a directory named *... why would anybody want a
> directory named *?  Anyway...]

This'll do the trick, I think:

(pit-manager) src % alias cd
chdir !*; set noglob; prom; unset noblob

(pit-manager) src % alias prom
set prompt = "($host) ""$cwd:t"" % "

(pit-manager) src % mkdir '*'
(pit-manager) src % cd '*'
(pit-manager) * % 
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