dansh@caus-dp.UUCP (Dan Harris) (11/13/87)
I am currently using the Bourne shell on an Intel 310 xenix system and I was wondering how to set the cursor prompt to indicate what directory I am working in.
lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) (11/15/87)
In article <275@caus-dp.UUCP> dansh@caus-dp.UUCP (Dan Harris) writes: >I am currently using the Bourne shell on an Intel 310 xenix system >and I was wondering how to set the cursor prompt to indicate what >directory I am working in. > My solution is to constantly reset PS1 environment variable after each invocation of "cd": (place this in your .profile) c() { cd $* PS1="`pwd`] " ; export PS1 } Now change directories with: $ c / /] c usr /usr] c /bin /bin] Hope this helps. Lenny -- ============================ US MAIL: Lenny Tropiano, ICUS Computer Group IIIII CCC U U SSSS PO Box 1 I C C U U S Islip Terrace, New York 11752 I C U U SSS PHONE: (516) 968-8576 [H] (516) 582-5525 [W] I C C U U S AT&T MAIL: ...attmail!icus!lenny TELEX: 154232428 IIIII CCC UUU SSSS UUCP: ============================ ...{uunet!godfre, mtune!quincy}!\ ...{ihnp4, boulder, harvard!talcott, skeeve, ptsfa}! >icus!lenny "Usenet the final frontier" ...{cmcl2!phri, hoptoad}!dasys1!/
ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (11/17/87)
You can't. Plain and simple. It requires a 5R2 or later Bourne shell and its shell function feature to accomplish it. Ksh from the UNIX toolchest will provdie the functionality. -Ron
tim@ism780c.UUCP (11/18/87)
In article <275@caus-dp.UUCP> dansh@caus-dp.UUCP (Dan Harris) writes:
< I am currently using the Bourne shell on an Intel 310 xenix system
< and I was wondering how to set the cursor prompt to indicate what
< directory I am working in.
<
PS1=.
What? You wanted the absolute path name? Oh. Never mind...
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tim@ism780c.isc.commike@cimcor.UUCP (Michael Grenier) (11/18/87)
In article <16549@topaz.rutgers.edu>, ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: > You can't. Plain and simple. > > It requires a 5R2 or later Bourne shell and its shell function > feature to accomplish it. Ksh from the UNIX toolchest will > provdie the functionality. > > -Ron I admit that I have 5.2 (Microport) but all I did was PS1=`pwd` which worked fine for me. -Mike meccts!cimcor!mike
barnett@steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G Barnett) (11/25/87)
In article <106600018@datacube> ftw@datacube.UUCP writes: |PS1="`pwd` >" It seems to me that either 1. `pwd` is executed once while PS1 is evaluated, which won't do what the requestoer asked (keyword: current) 2. `pwd` is executed on EVERY prompt. You don't want this either.
marcos@caus-dp.UUCP (Marcos R. Della) (11/26/87)
In article <421@cimcor.UUCP>, mike@cimcor.UUCP (Michael Grenier) writes: > In article <16549@topaz.rutgers.edu>, ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: > > You can't. Plain and simple. > > > > -Ron > > I admit that I have 5.2 (Microport) but all I did was > > PS1=`pwd` > > -Mike The problem with what your doing with the PS1=`pwd` is that you are not accounting for the changing of directories. That is the main reason for trying to get the system to recognise the fact that there has been a directory change and the PS1 promt needs to be changed. Under the 'C' shell, we have had no problems putting this together, however the bourne shell under which almost everyone runs, it doesn't work at all. We will be installing a Sperry 5000/80 here in a month or so and will have a little better operating system, but so far, everyone thinks that its not going to work... Marcos -- ...!lll-crg -> !csustan -\ | Whatever I said doesn't ...!sdsu ----->->!polyslo!caus-dp!marcos | mean diddly as I forgot ...!ihnp4 -> !csun ----/ | it even before finishing ...!dmsd ---/ | typing it all out!!!