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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help! How do I set my prompt?
Date: 26 Apr 1996 10:12:15 +0100
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Tokewanna Inc. (sales@cyclesak.com) wrote:
: I'm using csh shell and I was wondering what the set command is so
: it will show my directory locations. Thanks!
: John Norton
: john_norton@byu.edu
I'm no expert with csh, but you probably can't unless you set up a 'cd' alias
that dicks around with your prompt.
Under bash, you can say
PS1="$PWD \$ "
and I'm sure that shells such as tcsh give you these facilities !
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....