Re: prompt2

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Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Date
7 Dec 1998 20:47:09
Subject
Re: prompt2
Message-ID
19981208151654.S12688@freebie.lemis.com

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On Monday,  7 December 1998 at 20:41:44 +0000, Markus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've searched hi and low but cannot find any info regarding the prompt
> shell variable. I've been attempting to set my prompt as the current
> working directory such as:
>
> /usr/home/marke>%
>
> and have it change when the directory is changed. I was going to do an
> alias for cd and maybe change the prompt variable or use the second
> prompt variable if I knew how to print it as well but couldn't find the
> cd executable, I believe it's a system call???,

No, it's not a system call.

> and couldn't find info on prompt2. Do you know how to do this??

It depends on your shell, which you haven't mentioned. Take a look at
the man page for your shell.

Greg
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