Re: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem

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Subject: Re: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem
From: Brian K Servis <servis@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 11:10:16 -0500 (EST)
Message-id: <[🔎] 199712111610.LAA05254@widget.ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-to: servis@purdue.edu (Brian Servis)
In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.971211083737.3163I-100000@timshel> from "Rick Macdonald" at Dec 11, 97 08:38:20 am

Rick Macdonald writes:
>
>On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, cs51wcs wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>   I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the filesystem like in dos, but am having  a hard time. Any assistance is appreciated.
>
>Do you mean the prompt? Try something like this for the bash shell:
>
>         export PS1='\h:\w$ '
>

Or for tcsh:

   set prompt='%/: '

Brian 


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