Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:45:59 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@northwestern.edu> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Setting shell prompt for C-shell Message-ID: <20000720184558.T13979@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000720202001.A56906@localhost.localdomain>; from djkanter@northwestern.edu on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 08:20:01PM -0500 References: <20000720202001.A56906@localhost.localdomain>
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* 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... > > /home/david % pwd > /home/david > /home/david % cd /usr/ports/distfiles/ > /home/david % pwd <---- Not right! > /usr/ports/distfiles > /home/david % <---- Not right! > > What did I do wrong? `pwd` gets evaluated right then and there, not every time you hit enter, try this instead: set prompt="%~ >" 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. tread lightly. :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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