Getting UNIX prompt to display curr

Lars Bo Nielsen lbn at ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu
Sat Mar 25 03:54:21 AEST 1989


Simply (in CSH):

1) Full pathname:
	alias cd 'cd \!*; set foo=`pwd`; set prompt=$foo"% "'
2) Only name of current dir:
	alias cd 'cd \!*; set foo=`pwd`; set prompt=$foo:t"% "'
3) Include name of machine in prompt
	alias cd 'cd \!*; set foo=`pwd`; set prompt=$host":"$foo"% "'
or	alias cd 'cd \!*; set foo=`pwd`; set prompt=$host":"$foo:t"% "'
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