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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: pwd in the prompt
Date: 5 Apr 94 17:07:39 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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Message-ID: <michaelv.765565659@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
References: <2nrmmu$lql@hermes.unt.edu> <2ns0kl$gu9@Germany.EU.net>
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In <2ns0kl$gu9@Germany.EU.net> bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes:
>In article <2nrmmu$lql@hermes.unt.edu>, wilsonm@dale.hsc.unt.EDU (Mike Wilson) writes:
>|> Simply, I want to have the path in the prompt, I have tried several
>|> different ways but have yet to get it to work correctly. Does anyone out
>|> there have something I can use?
>Not me; alas, I know for sure that this is in one of the comp.unix FAQ's.
What shell are you using? It's trivial with tcsh: "set prompt='%c> '".
I use something a little more complex in tcsh:
set prompt="[%B%n%b@%B%m%b]%B%c3%b%# "
This gives me my username (in case I'm doing maintenance under a
different uid), hostname, and last three parts of path.
If you want to do it with one of the more basic shells, check out the
FAQ in comp.unix.shells.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
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