Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!sunybcs!boulder!hartzell From: hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: The whole prompt string thing (was: PS1 and the bourne shell...) Message-ID: <3370@sigi.Colorado.EDU> Date: 9 Dec 87 21:20:21 GMT References: <305@caus-dp.UUCP> <1170001@otter.HP.COM> <1410@swlabs.UUCP> Sender: news@sigi.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 22 In article <1410@swlabs.UUCP> jack@swlabs.UUCP (Jack Bonn) writes: > >Yet in DOS, to set the prompt to the current working directory (a sometimes >convenient thing to do), one simply issues the command PROMPT $p. It is not >quite as easy as this in unix. >-- >Jack Bonn, <> Software Labs, Ltd, Box 451, Easton CT 06612 >uunet!swlabs!jack At the risk of starting another Crusade, if you are using the latest version of the tenex c shell you can set your prompt to the full path name of the current working directory with: set prompt="%d" and you can set it to the tail of the full path with: set prompt="%c" Isn't it nice to be able to choose your shell? g. George Hartzell (303) 492-4535 MCD Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309 hartzell@Boulder.Colorado.EDU ..!{hao,nbires}!boulder!hartzell