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From: pink@fsz.bme.hu (Szabolcs Szigeti (PinkPanther))
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: pwd in the prompt
Date: 13 Apr 1994 07:27:06 GMT
Organization: Department of Process Control, Technical University of Budapest, HUNGARY
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In article 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? 
>Thanks for your help :)
>

I use this in my .cshrc :  

alias cd 'chdir \!:*;set prompt=\!\:$cwd\>\ '

on cshr or tcsh. There are easier ways on tcsh, but this works on both shells.
 
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