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From: mday@ohs.UUCP (Matthew T. Day)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: alias to link cd to pwd
Message-ID: <307@ohs.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 89 21:16:57 GMT
References: <3710@tank.uchicago.edu>
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in article <3710@tank.uchicago.edu>, phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu says:
> 
> 
> A long time ago, I had a script that links a cd to
> reset the prompt to the currently connected directory.
> 
> ...
>

Here's what I use, and it takes advantage of the built-in $cwd variable in
the Berkeley C-Shell, which drastically decreases the time needed to change
directories.  It also uses the 'chdir' alternative to avoid recursive aliases.
The SysV C-Shell that I used didn't have $cwd, so if yours doesn't, simply try
putting backslashes in front of the back "execution" quotes around `pwd`.

alias sp 'set prompt = "$cwd"\>\ '
alias cd 'chdir \!^; sp'

It works great, have fun.
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