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From: derek@hsi.UUCP (Derek Lee-Wo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Getting UNIX prompt to display current directory
Keywords: UNIX  prompt directories pwd
Message-ID: <341@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 15:42:08 GMT
References: <5582@ncsugn.ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: derek@hsi86.UUCP (Derek Lee-Wo)
Organization: Health Systems Intl., New Haven, CT.
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In article <5582@ncsugn.ncsu.edu> fristens@ncsugn.ncsu.edu (Brian Fristensky) writes:
>In MS-DOS there is a very easy way to get the current directory displayed as
>part of the prompt  (prompt $p).  In UNIX, there is certainly no
>straightforward way to do this.  Can anyone think of a tricky way?  My

This works only in BSD.
	alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt="[`/bin/pwd`] "'

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