Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:58:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Joey Garcia <bsd_usr@yahoo.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Bash and $HOME env var quirks Message-ID: <20000601205839.15411.qmail@web214.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hey all! Usually, I don't alter my working environment from factory default just because it's usually fine the way it is, but this time I thought I might tweak my bash prompt a bit. And I had a couple of questions about how the bash prompt '/w' option works and how it applies to the $HOME enviroment variable. First of all, if I set my prompt to PS1='\h:\w$ ' my prompt usually ends up looking like this: bsd:/usr/home/user$ rather than bsd:~$ I think this has to do with the $HOME enviroment variable being set to /home/user and not /usr/home/user, bash might not like because /home is a link to /user/home. After I set $HOME to /usr/home/user then things look okay. I'm wonder what initially sets the $HOME variable to /home/user rather than /usr/home/user. I've taken a look at my . files and I didn't see anything there that sets $HOME to /home/user so I'm thinking it's a global thing. TIA, Joey __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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