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From: vwa0201@marst2.UUCP (Larry Baca)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Getting UNIX prompt to display current directory (Answers)
Summary: T-SHELL PROMPT
Message-ID: <198@marst2.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 89 16:51:23 GMT
References: <2455@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <87@necbsd.NEC.COM>
Organization: Defense Automatic Addressing Systems Office, Tracy, Ca.
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In article <87@necbsd.NEC.COM>, gilbert@necbsd.NEC.COM (Russell Gilbert) writes:
> From article <2455@lindy.Stanford.EDU>, by news@lindy.Stanford.EDU (News Service):
> > ) 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? 

In T-SHELL, in my .cshrc, I use:

     set prompt="%S%M%s [%h] %"

This gives me, on the first line, my current dir.
On the next line, my machine name (we have 2), followed by the current
command no.
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