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To: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
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Subject: Re: CSH Shell 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:59:47 -0000."
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:09:54 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:59:47 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> 
> 	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!

Fist, change the single quotes around 'hostname' to back ticks.

Second, if you are running FreeBSD-4.1 or newer you are actually
running tcsh and you can do it better with:
set prompt="%m%% "

There are several prompt setting shortcuts. See man csh for all the
details.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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