Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:53:09 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bash prompt (/usr/home/username instead of ~/) Message-ID: <ML-3.4.940269189.5758.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <199910181749.NAA13522@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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On 18-Oct-99 at 10:48, Crist J. Clark (cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) wrote: > Arcady Genkin wrote, > > Thanks, Sheldon, but that's not quite what I wanted. \W gives me only > > the trailing name of the current directory. So if I am in ~/src/csc/, > > it gives me "door:csc$". > > > > My problem was that with \w it says "/usr/home/antipode/src/csc", > > whereas I would like it to say "~/src/csc". And the funny part of the > > problem was that it starts to behave the way I want it to after I > > simply type "cd" w/o arguments (then bash replaces "u/h/antipode" with > > "~"). > > What happens if you put a 'cd' command right after the prompt is set? Shouldn't that be 'cd .' just in case you aren't in your home directory? -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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