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From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
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To: Mike Coffey & Yvonne Shevnin <mikec@mediacity.com>
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Subject: Re: How to make current directory show at the commandline?
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On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Mike Coffey & Yvonne Shevnin wrote:

> I would like the current directory that I am at to display at the command 
> line like it does in DOS. Is there anyway to emulate this?

You don't mention what shell you're using .. sh, csh, ksh, or maybe bash.
If you're using csh (like me) then you need to add two lines to your 
.cshrc file.  The first sets your initial login prompt:

set     prompt="`hostname -s`:`pwd`:\! >"

And the second modifies the 'cd' command to change your prompt when you 
change directories:

alias   cd      'cd \!*;set prompt="`hostname -s`:`pwd`:\! >"'

This gives you a prompt like:

n3lxx:/usr/chuckr:52 >

(my machine is named n3lxx).  I need my machine name in there because I 
have two machines, and I'm always doing remote rlogins.  This serves to 
remind me what machine I'm working on.  If you don't want the machine 
name, taking the 'hostname -s' out would give that result.

> 
> Thanks-- Yvonne Shevnin
> 

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