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From: cuccia@ucbvax.ARPA (Nick Cuccia)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Funny prompts
Message-ID: <2511@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 13-Oct-84 01:04:30 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 13 01:04:30 1984
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Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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Some of us (UCB) here do really horrible things with our prompts.
I have, in my .cshrc, the following:

	alias	promp	`set prompt=MachineName ($cwd) <\! > `
	alias	cd	'cd \!*; promp'

and in my .login:

	promp

This prints the full path, from the root, on UN*X systems.
Some machines may not have the cwd variable, so you may need
to add 'alias	setcwd set cwd=`pwd`' to your .cshrc and
insert setcwd ahead of promp in the cd alias above.

On average my prompt length is about 25 chars, with its peak at close
to  80.

Have fun...

--Nick Cuccia
--ucbvax!cuccia