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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Shell wars (Re: xargs and alias commands)
Date: 26 Aug 94 14:25:41 GMT
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
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brewer@hamlet.umd.edu (Peter Brewer) writes:
>alias cd 'set old=$cwd; chdir \!*; set back=$cwd:h; set prompt=$hostname\[$back:
>t/$cwd:t\].\!\ '
Well, ksh doesn't support alias arguments, which is a major pain, so the
above can't be written. However, if you want, you can write a function
that does the above (Boo!) or simply recall that '~-' is the previous
directory (which takes care of 'set old...'), and that PS1 can be set to
PS1='[${PWD#${PWD%/*/*}/}]! '
which takes care of 'set prompt'...
:)
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