J.O. Aho wrote:
>
> Got a bit irritated when updating my Gentoo boxes to use bash 3.00.16,
> the \W and \w options for the prompt now replaces the home directory
> name to tilde, I hope I'm not the only one who wants to see the home
> directory name instead of the tilde.
>
> Wouldn't it be possible to see options \U and \u (just a suggestion)
> which behaives as \W and \w used to do under 2.05.
I'd rather not do that. It's trivial to emulate the 2.05 behavior using
something like ${PWD##/*/}. It's not quite as easy to emulate the 3.0
behavior using shell expansions.
Chet
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