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In article <1992Apr7.120605.26841@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
>
>In article <1992Apr7.072725.6379@nextdoor.com>
>john@nextdoor.com (John McCracken) writes:
>
>Bearing in mind that this prompt business is (periodically)
>a topic more appropriate to comp.unix.questions, here's
>another variant:
>
>	alias cd 'cd \!*; doprompt'
>	alias doprompt 'set prompt="[`hostname`:`whoami`]`dirs|sed -e
>'\''s/ //'\'' -e 's.~..' -e 's./..'`[\\!] "'
>

That's disgusting.  Why do people think firing up sed with line noise
for arguments every time you change your working directory is elegant?
"Many small tools..."  "Thousand points of light..."

You also have to alias pushd and popd.

Another solution to this problem is to use tcsh or bash which both let
you put the working directory in the prompt by saying something simple
like (this works for bash)

	PS1="\h \w : "

"\h" is replaced with the host name.  "\w" is replaced with the
working directory.  This gives the following prompt:

MC8 ~/News : 

It also updates it automatically when the working directory changes.
 
-- 
Chris Maeda, Grad Student and RetroGrouch <cmaeda@cs.cmu.edu>
"A unix signature isn't a return address, it's the ASCII equivalent of
a black velvet clown painting. It's a rectangle of carets surrounding
a quote from a literary giant of weeniedom like Heinlein or Dr. Who."