topic Changing C shell prompt in Operating System - HP-UX

Changing C shell prompt

robert maxwell_1 — Fri, 08 Sep 2000 19:29:48 GMT

How do i change my c shell prompt to show the current path instead of hostname?

Re: Changing C shell prompt

Alan Riggs — Fri, 08 Sep 2000 19:39:55 GMT

Don't use csh, but in bourne, posix and ksh you modify the PS1 parameter. The one I use is:

PS1="<"'$LOGNAME'"@$(uname -n)> "'$PWD

Re: Changing C shell prompt

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 08 Sep 2000 19:51:13 GMT

Robert:

See document #A3742192

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=3047f9b00a6dcc506a/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000024669366

...JRF...

Re: Changing C shell prompt

James R. Ferguson — Sat, 09 Sep 2000 00:23:20 GMT

Robert:

I should be more explicit. Add either of the following to your $HOME/.cshrc or $HOME/.login file.

To show both the hostname and the current working directory:

alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt="[`hostname`]$cwd :"'

To show only the current working directory:

alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt="$cwd : "'

In either case, whenever you change directories your prompt will be updated to reflect this.

...JRF...