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From: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org>
To: "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
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Subject: RE: CSH Shell
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 16:55:12 -0500
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Rick,

try this...

set prompt = "`hostname -s`% "

I recommend "Using csh & tcsh", O'Reilly, ISBN 1-56592-132-1
Spend an evening with this book and you'll be a happy camper.

Regards,
Doug 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Rick Hamell
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 08:00
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: CSH Shell
> 
> 
> 
> 	Taking my first steps into scripting, my first task is to figure
> out how to customize csh. Problem is, I can't seem to make something like
> set prompt="'hostname' %" work... The command hostname dosen't seem to
> work at all. I figure I've got the syntax wrong, but where... ? :) What I
> get is 'hostname' btw. Thanks much!
> 
> 
> 			Rick
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