Path: utzoo!vpk4!shagar
From: shagar@vpk4.UUCP (Steven Hagar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Getting UNIX prompt to display current directory
Keywords: UNIX  prompt directories pwd
Message-ID: <4457@vpk4.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 89 23:13:05 GMT
References: <5582@ncsugn.ncsu.edu> <2187@solo11.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: shagar@attcan.UUCP (Steven Hagar)
Organization: AT&T Canada Inc., Toronto
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The one thing that I didn't like about putting the current directory in PS1
was that if I was in something like "/usr/spool/uucppublic/receive/..."
there wasn't much space left on the line to see the command I was typing. 
An alternate approach that I found useful was to display the current
directory in the status field of my terminal.  Here are the functions
that I use within Bourne and Korn shells on AT&T terminals:

case ${TERM} in

605|610|615)
pd(){
cd $1
msg=`uname`": "`pwd`
len=`expr 80 - "${msg}" : '.*'`
sp="                    "
echo "^[7\033[x${sp}${sp}${sp}${sp}\c"
echo "\033[25;${len}x${msg}^[8\c"
};;

630)
pd(){
cd $1
msg=`uname`": "`pwd`
len=`expr "${msg}" : '.*'`
echo "\033[?${len};2v${msg}\c"
};;

esac


(suggestions for removing nasty terminal dependencies welcomed --
 please send comments or questions via e-mail)
-- 

  Steven Hagar             .
  AT&T Canada Inc.         .  ATTMAIL: !shagar
  (416) 756-5061           .  UUCP: uunet!attcan!shagar