Getting UNIX prompt to display current directory

Derek Lee-Wo derek at hsi.UUCP
Tue Mar 21 01:44:57 AEST 1989


In article <341 at hsi86.hsi.UUCP> derek at hsi86.UUCP (Derek Lee-Wo) writes:
>In article <5582 at ncsugn.ncsu.edu> fristens at ncsugn.ncsu.edu (Brian Fristensky) writes:
>>In MS-DOS there is a very easy way to get the current directory displayed as
>>part of the prompt  (prompt $p).  In UNIX, there is certainly no
>>straightforward way to do this.  Can anyone think of a tricky way?  My
:
:This works only in BSD.
    +-------------->^^^^
:   |	alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt="[`/bin/pwd`] "'
:   |
    |
Sorry, I meant to say csh in my previous posting.
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