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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers shell (tcsh) prompt gets reset on every cd Post 302470804 by yuvalbn on Thursday 11th of November 2010 06:33:40 AM
Old 11-11-2010
no, this isn't DOS, it's tcsh.
let me clarify.

I have the 'set prompt' command in my ~/.cshrc which runs at login.
for some reason this isn't working, as I detailed in my previous post.
to check what happens to the prompt, i just typed the 'set prompt' command in my shell and saw my prompt changes accordingly, but when i change dir the prompt is reset to showing only one level of directories (and not 3 as i wanted). this is probably what causing the default settings from ~/.cshrc not to work.
what can dynamically change $prompt like that?

p.s.
i don't have $PS1 set in my shell by default
 

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