Setting the current path in the command prompt in (t)csh

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10-10-2006

reborg

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Setting the current path in the command prompt in (t)csh

csh does not deal with prompts in the same way as a bourne based shell.

There are two way to set this in a csh/tcsh shell.

in csh you would have to do something like this in your .cshrc

Code:

alias precommand 'set prompt="${cwd} >"'
precommand           # to set the initial prompt
alias cd 'chdir \!* && precommand'

gives the following prompt:

Code:

/var/tmp/templog >

In tcsh you could do the same or add %/ to the prompt options, for example:

Code:

set prompt="%m{%n} %/ >"

displays as:

Code:

myhost{reborg} /var/tmp/templog >

Last edited by reborg; 11-26-2006 at 05:17 PM..

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