how to set my prompt to display current directory
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Name: michael
Date: April 5, 2000 at 19:52:37 Pacific
Subject: how to set my prompt to display current directory |
Comment: Can anyone show me how to edit my login script so that the commant prompt will always show the current directory ? Thanks on advance.
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Name: michael
Date: April 6, 2000 at 23:02:06 Pacific
Subject: how to set my prompt to display current directory |
Reply: (edit)Thanks, but the above doesn't work, all I get is a prompt like %~/ But what I would like is the prompt to display the current directory I am in. Thanks.
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Response Number 3
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Name: Alick
Date: April 7, 2000 at 00:23:27 Pacific
Subject: how to set my prompt to display current directory
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Reply: (edit)Depends on your shell - the Bourne shell will not do this. I use the Korn shell on SVR4, and this one also gives my login name and the system I am on: PS1="[$LOGNAME@`uname -n`]\$PWD> "
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Response Number 4
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Name: Sean
Date: April 10, 2000 at 01:40:03 Pacific
Subject: how to set my prompt to display current directory |
Reply: (edit)If you are using BASH, edit your .bashrc file so that it contains the line, PS1=\w "\w" is an escape sequence for the current working directory. I believe there is a HOWTO on editing BASH prompts- if you have any problems with my suggestion, look for the BASH prompt HOWTO online.
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Response Number 5
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Name: unisol
Date: April 10, 2000 at 04:52:48 Pacific
Subject: how to set my prompt to display current directory
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Reply: (edit)Yeap
I forgot to mention
i use tcsh
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Response Number 6
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Name: bob
Date: July 24, 2001 at 15:30:18 Pacific
Subject: how to set my prompt to display current directory |
Reply: (edit)On tcsh use:
set prompt="%B[%n@%M]:%/> " %B - bold
%n - username
%M - hostname
%/ - current working directory
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