How To Set Meaningful UNIX Command Prompt?

If you use C-shell, following may be used to set meaningful unix command prompt. For example, to display current working directory in the prompt, add the following lines in the .cshrc file (and then issues "source .cshrc" command).


set HOSTNAME=`uname -n`
set prompt="${HOSTNAME}:`pwd` \! % "
alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt="${HOSTNAME}:`pwd` \! % "'
alias pushd 'pushd \!*;set prompt="${HOSTNAME}:`pwd` \! % "'
alias popd 'popd \!*;set prompt="${HOSTNAME}:`pwd` \! % "'

posted by Amandeep 6/10/2006 11:57:00 PM | PERMALINK