Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!jdchrist
From: jdchrist@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Dan Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Proposed monthly Frequently Axed Questions posting, round II
Message-ID: <10192@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 8 Jun 89 01:26:33 GMT
References: <21764@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: jdchrist@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Dan Christensen)
Organization: Computer Graphics Lab, University of Waterloo
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In article <21764@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) writes:
>4)  How do I get the current directory into my prompt?
>
>    It depends which shell you are using.  It's easy with some shells,
>    hard or impossible with others.
>	
>    C Shell (csh):
>	Put this in your .cshrc - customize the prompt variable
>	the way you want.
>
>	    alias cd 'chdir \!* && set prompt="${cwd}% "'
>	
>	If you use pushd and popd, you'll also need
>
>	    alias pushd 'pushd \!* && set prompt="${cwd%} "'
>	    alias popd  'popd  \!* && set prompt="${cwd%} "'
                                                  ^^^^^^^

These should be ${cwd}% shouldn't they?

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Dan Christensen, Computer Graphics Lab,	         jdchrist@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont.	         jdchrist@watcgl.waterloo.edu