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    BSD Environment Question

    Its been about 4 years since I touched a BSD machine, and I am finding that I am a little rusty .

    I want to set my environmental variables so that it shows the current directory as part of the prompt, as I am sshing around the box.

    Where do I make that change?

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    It depends on your shell, not the system.

    A little search on PS1 bash PWD gave me this: http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~leblancj/labs/prompts.html

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    Originally posted by taz0
    It depends on your shell, not the system.
    taz -- great links, thanks!! Yea, the problem is I turned into a lazy bash user, and couldn't remember my way around csh . I searched through the BSD documentation and google for environmental information -- but I was obviously looking for the wrong thing .


    thanks again

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    If you're more familiar with bash, why not just install it?
    Dr. Colin Percival, FreeBSD Security Officer
    Online backups for the truly paranoid: http://www.tarsnap.com/

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    Originally posted by cperciva
    If you're more familiar with bash, why not just install it?
    Because it has been a long time since I used csh, and I like playing with all the toys . I have my linux box at home with a bash shell...so this is different for me.

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