Well, many moons ago, I wanted to do a similar thing, only I needed
something different: I use a lot of shell variables to 'shortcut' to here
and there in the system [$temp, $perl, $scripts, $news, etc]. What I
wanted was that *IF* my current PWD had a prefix that matched some
variable in my environment, THEN: I wanted to have my prompt look like:
$perl/newclient
or
$scripts/backup/
or
$scripts/backup/tapewriter
or the like... This was in the before-there-was-Perl days, and I DID
find a way to do it [I wrote a little C program to do the job]... Might
be an interesting exercise to do in Perl, it isn't all that hard [but
might be tricky to get down to golf-style <72char form, [what with
looping through %ENV looking for matching prefixes, etc...]
/Bernie\
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