Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 16:09:27 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Markus <mennis@ucsd.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: prompt2 Message-ID: <19981208160927.A30957@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <366C3D88.7C67F93E@ucsd.edu> References: <366C3D88.7C67F93E@ucsd.edu>
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Markus wrote: > I've searched hi and low but cannot find any info regarding the prompt > shell variable. I've been attempting to set my prompt as the current > working directory such as: > > /usr/home/marke>% > > and have it change when the directory is changed. I was going to do an > alias for cd and maybe change the prompt variable or use the second > prompt variable if I knew how to print it as well but couldn't find the > cd executable, I believe it's a system call??? It's not a system call, `cd' is a command builtin to the shell. (It has to be, external commands don't make any effect on your current shell.) > and couldn't find info > on prompt2. Do you know how to do this?? What shell? In sh, the variable you need is PS1, though it's not easy to do what you want. If you like sh-type shells, take a look at bash in the ports collection (shells/bash2), you can then use something like PS1='\w>% ' to get what you want. It may be possible in csh, or tcsh which is another csh-like shell I believe, though I don't know much about them as I prefer sh or bash. There is a section in one of the Unix FAQs (see comp.answers) on how to do this as well, which might be worth a look. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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