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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.
set prompt = "$user@`uname -n` : ${cwd}> "
#above commands works for username and hostname but cwd doesnt change
directories
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Phew simple question,
I want to display the my directory path in prompt.
Did the following in .profile
PS1=`pwd`
export PS!
Worked, but it always points to HOME directory.
When i do a cd, it doesn't change.
What am i missing.
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Me again,
What is the difficulty to display the full directory Path before my prompt command ? (like DOS)
I'm using Solaris 8 + Bash
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