Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 11:25:53 -0600 From: "Paul T. Root" <ptroot@uswest.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: mikec@mediacity.com Subject: Re: How to make current directory show at the commandline? Message-ID: <31470521.B9F@uswest.com> References: <31468A3B.28B6@mediacity.com> <9603131436.AA29020@wavehh.hanse.de>
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Martin Cracauer 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? > > Yu should have told us which shell you use. > > If you use bash, zsh or tcsh, RTFM. This isn't always very useful. In bash its simple: PS1="\h:\w \t \! % " \h hostname \w pwd \t time \! command number > In csh, you can put this into you .cshrc: > vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv > alias SetPrompt 'set prompt="${myhost} [`pwd2`]-\\!% "' > > alias cd 'cd \!* && SetPrompt' > alias cdl 'cd \!*; ls' > alias popd 'popd \!* && SetPrompt' > alias pushd 'pushd \!* && SetPrompt' > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > -- > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> - Fax +49 40 522 85 36 > BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bik-gmbh.de/~cracauer -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: ptroot@uswest.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030
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