Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 23:07:29 -0400 From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: Subscriber to freebsd-questions <fbsdmail@sign.chg.ru>, Kenneth Legg <sce04020@mail.wvnet.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Prompt Message-ID: <37B62EF1.973F9C57@confusion.net> References: <99081410242902.00286@myname.my.domain> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908150645340.84067-100000@sign.chg.ru> <19990815035813.C267@marder-1>
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On tcsh i'm using
set prompt=("%n@%m:%/ {%!} ")
in the .cshrc
that gives you username, machine name, directory, and the history number
so for example
user@foo:/usr/bin {73}
I don't know if it works under csh, but it's alot less work than using
hostname or pwd or other things like it, tcsh fills in the variables
Mark Ovens wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 06:54:16AM +0400, Subscriber to freebsd-questions wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Kenneth Legg wrote:
> >
> > > How do you change the prompt to show the current directory?
> > >
> > >
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> > If you use csh or tcsh, type this line in your .cshrc file :
> >
> > set prompt = "`hostname -s`: %~ > "
> >
> > This also adds information about hostname (useful thing, when you have
> > accounts on several boxes).
>
> Or add the following alias:
>
> alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt="`hostname`:`pwd`{!}% "'
>
> > Andrew.
> >
> >
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