Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:53:47 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@northwestern.edu>, FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Setting shell prompt for C-shell Message-ID: <20000721095347.A9557@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20000720184558.T13979@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 06:45:59PM -0700 References: <20000720202001.A56906@localhost.localdomain> <20000720184558.T13979@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein said on Jul 20, 2000 at 18:45:59: > * David J. Kanter <djkanter@northwestern.edu> [000720 18:22] wrote: > > I'm having trouble customizing the shell prompt for csh. I'd like to have: > > > > pwd % (ex. /home/david % or /usr/bin % ...) > > > > In my .cshrc I have: > > > > set prompt="`pwd` % " > > > > Which works fine upon start-up (/home/david % ) but doesn't change as I make > > my way through various directories. Look... > `pwd` gets evaluated right then and there, not every time you > hit enter, try this instead: > > set prompt="%~ >" What is that supposed to do? When I try it I simply get a prompt like %~ > (this is with /bin/csh on 3.4) and ~ > (with tcsh on the same machine) > Please see the shell's manpage (man csh), in ancient and more > barbaric times someone would show up at your door for forking pwd > every time you hit enter. What I use is something like this: alias cd 'cd \!*; set prompt="\! `pwd`>"' which sets the prompt afresh every time you use cd. Is that what you mean above? Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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