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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re^2: Getting UNIX prompt to display curr
Summary: Why use awk if csh can do it?
Message-ID: <2204@solo1.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 23 Mar 89 04:05:08 GMT
References: <5582@ncsugn.ncsu.edu> <47800029@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <1823@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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rostamia@umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Rouben Rostamian) writes:
\alias cd cd \!\*\; set prompt = \
\  pwd \| awk \'BEGIN \{FS=\"/\"\} \{print \$\'NF\'\}\'\`\"\> \"

	alias cd 'chdir \!*; set prompt="$cwd:t> "'

\alias asdf cd \!\*\; set prmpt = \`pwd \| awk \'BEGIN \{FS=\"/\"\} \
\       \{cnt = NF\; cnt -- \; \
\        printf \"\%-1s/\%-1s\>\", \$\'cnt\', \$\'NF\' \}\'\` \; \
\        set prompt = \"\$prmpt \"

	alias cd 'chdir \!*; set par=$cwd:h; set prompt="$par:t/$cwd:t> "'
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