Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!newcastle.ac.uk!news From: aidan%ncl.shire@newcastle.ac.uk (Aidan Saunders) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Prompt question Message-ID: <1989Aug17.170703.10328@newcastle.ac.uk> Date: 17 Aug 89 17:07:03 GMT Sender: news@newcastle.ac.uk Distribution: comp Organization: Chemical & Process Engineering Dept, University of Newcastle, UK. Lines: 24 I want to have the current directory name in my prompt (using csh) so I set the prompt using $cwd:t BUT... BUT... BUT... When I'm in the root directory, /, I want / to appear in the prompt. Using $cwd:t gives me nothing in the directory part of the prompt. Also, it would be nice if the top directories (ie /etc /tmp ...) appeared with the leading slash while other directories appear only with the tail part. Any ideas ? (I'm not bothered how you can do it in other shells - I want to know about csh !) aidan. ---------------------------------------------- ARPA :: a.c.g.saunders@newcastle.ac.uk UUCP :: ...!ukc!newcastle.ac.uk!a.c.g.saunders ----------------------------------------------