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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:53:47 +0530
From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
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Subject: Re: Setting shell prompt for C-shell
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Alfred Perlstein said on Jul 20, 2000 at 18:45:59:
> * David J. Kanter <djkanter@northwestern.edu> [000720 18:22] wrote:
> > I'm having trouble customizing the shell prompt for csh. I'd like to have:
> > 
> > pwd % (ex. /home/david % or /usr/bin % ...)
> > 
> > In my .cshrc I have:
> > 
> > set prompt="`pwd` % "
> > 
> > Which works fine upon start-up (/home/david % ) but doesn't change as I make
> > my way through various directories. Look...

> `pwd` gets evaluated right then and there, not every time you
> hit enter, try this instead:
> 
> set prompt="%~ >"

What is that supposed to do?  When I try it I simply get a prompt like
%~ >              (this is with /bin/csh on 3.4)
and 
~ >               (with tcsh on the same machine)

> Please see the shell's manpage (man csh), in ancient and more
> barbaric times someone would show up at your door for forking pwd
> every time you hit enter.

What I use is something like this:
alias cd 'cd \!*; set prompt="\! `pwd`>"'

which sets the prompt afresh every time you use cd.  Is that what you
mean above?

Rahul.


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