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I am running fedora 8 with cshell (I believe this is what I'm running
since I have a .cshrc file, I'm new to this) and I would like to
always have my current directory displayed as my prompt, how do I do
this?

thanks,

On 2008-01-19, vtcad <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> I am running fedora 8 with cshell (I believe this is what I'm running
> since I have a .cshrc file, I'm new to this) and I would like to
> always have my current directory displayed as my prompt, how do I do
> this?
>
> thanks,

If you have a .cshrc, tcsh is probably installed, but it isn't
necessarily your default shell. At a shell prompt you can type
echo $SHELL
or
grep "username" /etc/passwd

If your shell is tcsh, you can set the variable "prompt" in your
..cshrc or .login. Read "man tcsh" to see what special characters can be
used in the prompt. "%/" is replaced by the full name of the current
directory; "%~" is the current directory with "~" replacing the name of
your home directory.
If your shell is bash (the default in most Linux installations), the
prompt variable is PS1, set in the .bashrc script, and \w or \W
represents the current directory.