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From: morrell@hpsal2.HP.COM (Michael Morrell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Re^2: Getting UNIX prompt to display current directory
Message-ID: <14660009@hpsal2.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 89 21:09:29 GMT
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/ hpsal2:comp.unix.questions / lbn@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Lars Bo Nielsen) /  7:52 am  Mar 27, 1989 /

You are right. Here are the modified (quicker) versions:

2) Only name of current dir:
	alias cd 'cd \!*; set foo=$cwd; set prompt=$foo:t"% "'
3) Include name of machine in prompt
	alias cd 'cd \!*; set prompt=$host":"$cwd"% "'
or	alias cd 'cd \!*; set foo=$cwd; set prompt=$host":"$foo:t"% "'
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  I don't think you need the extra variable foo.  "set prompt=$cwd:t" works
just fine.

     Michael