Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 18:46:40 +0100 (GMT-1) From: af@biomath.jussieu.fr To: rcutter@ctgusa.com (Ryan Cutter) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing prompt Message-ID: <199607051746.SAA03663@garfield.biomath.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19960705154424.008cda38@ctgusa.com> from "Ryan Cutter" at Jul 5, 96 11:44:24 am
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Ryan Cutter wrote / a ecrit:
>
> Hi,
>
> How can I change my prompt in FreeBSD to reflect the current
> directory I'm in?
>
If you're using tcsh (which I highly recommend), I suggest:
set prompt="%m:%~%# "
While we're at it, I have the following in my .cshrc which I find
useful when running xterms:
if ($?tcsh) then
if ("$term" == "xterm") then
set prompt="%{^[]0;%n@%m (%l - $$) %/^G%}%# "
else
set prompt="%m:%~%# "
endif
endif
It dynamically sets my xterm banner to something like :
af@garfield (/dev/ttyp6 - 3572) /home/u/af/gnu
See "man tcsh" for all the other goodies tcsh has.
_Alain_
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Medical Computing Research Labs Mail: af@biomath.jussieu.fr
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I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator"
But... I *am* the system administrator :-]
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