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Date:      Sat, 14 Aug 1999 10:37:05 -0400
From:      "David S. Jackson" <dsj@dsj.net>
To:        Kenneth Legg <sce04020@mail.wvnet.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Prompt
Message-ID:  <19990814103705.C20961@juno.dsj.net>
In-Reply-To: <99081410242902.00286@myname.my.domain>; from Kenneth Legg on Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 10:23:26AM -0400
References:  <99081410242902.00286@myname.my.domain>

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So then Kenneth Legg (sce04020@mail.wvnet.edu) said . . .

> How do you change the prompt to show the current directory?

For bash/sh:

export PS1="[\u@\h \w]$ "

for csh, in your .cshrc put:

alias setprompt 'set prompt = "$cwd % "'
setprompt
alias cd 'cd \!*;setprompt'
alias pushd 'pushd \!*;setprompt'
alias popd 'popd \!*;setprompt'

Now after sourcing your .cshrc, execute the new setprompt command.


As you can see, it's *much* easier to use bash, although tcsh is much
easier than csh.  Good luck!

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David S. Jackson                       http://www.dsj.net
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