Upgrading to FreeBSD 3.2 etc

Mark Ovens mark at dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org
Wed Sep 1 22:58:38 BST 1999


On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:58:39PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 10:43:40PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 05:28:12PM +0100, Charles Brewster wrote:
> > > I can't seem to figure out any straightforward or intuitive way to get a
> > > $p$g type prompt in the default "csh" shell, and a new "bash" (2.03) fresh
> > 
> > alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt="`hostname`:`pwd`{!}% "'
> 
> Please don't encourage people onto csh...
> 

Why not? Are you trying to start a religious war ;-)

> In bash, you can do:
> 
> PS1='\w\$ '
> 
> Which will give you the current working directory.  Look in the bash man
> page for PS1 which will give you a list of all the things you can do.
> 
> Your best bet is to install zsh, however.  :-)
> 

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