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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!kiss.demon.co.uk From: phil@zipmail.co.uk (Phil Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: DOS Style shell prompt Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 18:11:16 GMT Organization: Lan Systems Lines: 20 Message-ID: <814126352.7670@kiss.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: phil@zipmail.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: kiss.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: kiss.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 I know that dos is a four letter word in most un*x groups, but one SCO system I saw some time ago had dos's $p style prompt, which would show the user what is the current working directory. This is very usefull (unless you have gone very deep in the directory structure) and saves a pwd every time you do an rm -r * . It helps just to check where you are. I know people that have accidently done rm -r * in / because they were logged in as root on an SCO system and had typed cd on its own just before !!!!! (best thing to do with SCO anyway 8-). Anyway I have tried set prompt = $cwd and of course it sets it to the current dir forever. Im sure there is a way to do this in FBSD with sh/csh/bash/tcsh and I would like to know how to do it. Cheers Phil