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Old 09-26-2013
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Need assistance in changing prompt .

Trying to change prompt in csh,tcsh shell . Below are the commands i tried in .cshrc and sourcing this files.

Code:
set prompt = "$user@`uname -n` : ${cwd}> "

#above commands works for username and hostname but cwd doesnt change
directories

Code:
set prompt = "$user@`uname -n` : ${cwd}> "

Code:
set prompt  = '%B%m%b %c3 %# '

#this isnt working either

Any ideas appreciated . Thank you
# 2  
Old 09-26-2013
Code:
set prompt = `hostname | awk -F. '{print $1}'`"$PWD>

Last edited by blackrageous; 09-26-2013 at 06:28 PM..
# 3  
Old 09-26-2013
Putting $CWD in backticks won't stop $CWD from evaluating before the prompt is ever shown. Try \$ if csh lets you do that
# 4  
Old 09-26-2013
No luck Smilie
# 5  
Old 09-26-2013
Code:
set prompt  = '%B%m%b %c3 %# '

Does seem to work (tested in CSH on OS X and on CentOS).

What OS are you using, and what does not work about it?
# 6  
Old 09-26-2013
SunOS <servername> 5.10 Generic_127111-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise

the above commands doesnt change to username,hostname.

After setting the path i get the same result

Code:
%B%m%b %c3 %#

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Appreciate if someone can help me on this !!!!
# 7  
Old 09-26-2013
The best help I can give you is...

Don't use C-Shell. This is 2013, not 1983 Smilie
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