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Hello,

I'm trying to create an alias that will show the path name of a current directory when a user cd's into any directory.

I have tried the following:

alias cd ' cd | pwd '

This just lists the current directory, even when I cd to another directory the alias just lists my home working directory.

Thanks

2

You are setting the alias cd to only cd back to your home directory...you aren't giving it the parameter of where to change to.

Try this instead - (will work with ksh and sh - not csh)
set up PS1=`$PWD` in your .profile

3

thehoghunter:

Are you saying that I cannot create an alias within the csh to allow the user to know the cwd upon cd'ing?

thanks

4

No, I wrote that the information given would not work with csh. If you know csh, you know it doesn't use .profile .

Put the following (or something like it) in your .cshrc
alias cd 'cd \!*;set prompt="[`hostname`]$cwd :" '

5

try use those lines on your .cshrc

set prompt = "[\!]$USER@`hostname`>"
alias setprompt 'set prompt = "$USER@`hostname` $cwd>"'
setprompt
alias cd 'cd \!;setprompt'
alias pushd 'pushd \!; setprompt'
alias popd 'popd \!*; setprompt'
alias pwd 'echo $cwd'

Hope this help.

:slight_smile:

6

yellowfish, thehoghunter:

Thanks for the advice, I will give it a shot. I found another way of performing this task:

alias cd 'get old = $ cwd; chdir \ !*; pwd'

This works just fine.

Again, thanks.

7

Hi,

I'm using ksh do you know how to make an alias for cd that will list all the files in the current directory?

Cheers

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