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From: dean@usceast.UUCP (Dean Karres)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Csh prompt
Message-ID: <2721@usceast.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 89 05:24:37 GMT
References: <35782@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: dean@usceast.UUCP (Dean Karres)
Organization: University of South Carolina, Columbia
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In article <35782@bbn.COM> sboisen@bbn.com writes:
>>In article <739@umb.umb.edu> pme@umb.edu (Paul English) writes:
>>>...
>>>    alias . echo `hostname`: `dirs`
>>...
>My solution is to put only the last part of the directory into the
>prompt:

I came across this posting this evening so if my suggestion has
already been posted and rejected please forgive :-)

On the BSD/Ultrix/SUN OS boxes that I deal with my prompt is set as
follows:

set host = `hostname`
set prompt = "$host - `pwd`\
% "
alias cd 'cd \!*; set prompt = "$host - `pwd`\\
% "'
alias po 'popd; set prompt = "$host - `pwd`\\
% "'
alias pu 'pushd \!*; set prompt = "$host - `pwd`\\
% "'

This gives me the ability to have complete, though potentially long,
paths showing that do not interfear with my command line. The general
effect is:

monster - /usr/local/not-so-local/.../.../.../.../.../.../...
%

I do the "set host = `hostname`" because I think that the variable
substitution is "faster" than the "hostname" evaluation. I do not know
this for a fact.

Dean...k...

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