Date: 18 Oct 1999 05:57:44 -0400 From: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Bash prompt (/usr/home/username instead of ~/) Message-ID: <87aephxa7b.fsf@main.wgaf.net>
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Hi all: bash, while starting in my home directory, shows the expanded path-name in the beginning: door:/usr/home/antiponde $ while PS1 is set as following to '\h:\w\$ ' Typing "cd" changes the prompt to "door:~/ $", which is a nicer prompt. How can I make bash to display the short version of the current directory from the beginning? I works for "root", though: when I "su", and run bash, I get "main:~/ #" right away, as apposed to "main:/root/ #". Could someone point me in the right direction, please? -- Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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