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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Path in prompt !!?? help!
Date: 16 May 1996 01:51:32 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <DrG8vz.HCE@student.twi.tudelft.nl>, M.V. van der Star <star> wrote:
>Hi, this may be a dumb question but I have recently installed FreeBSD 2.05
>and I wonder how to get my prompt to display the current directory !
>I have tried things like (from the top of my head) :
>
>set prompt = "$cwd -> "
>
>this sets the prompt to the directory I'm currently in but doesn't change when
>I move to a different directory !
I assume you're using csh. Here's something I stole from the
comp.unix.questions FAQ - put this in your .cshrc:-
alias setprompt 'set prompt="${cwd}% "'
setprompt # to set the initial prompt
alias cd 'chdir \!* && setprompt'
Alternatively, upgrade to a more modern shell which has more friendly
ways of handling things like this - bash, ksh and tcsh are all in the
ports.
>Please help, and if you can, also send your reply to me through e-mail.
>Thanks!!
>My e-mail address is : s795238@dutiwy.twi.tudelft.nl
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James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
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james@jraynard.demon.co.uk