On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:22, Yongzhi Pan <panyong...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tested in GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release and 4.1.2(1)-release. > > Upon login, home dir is displayed as tilde in PS1: > pan@BJ-APN-2 ~$ echo $PS1 > \[\033[35m\]\u@\h \w$ \[\033[0m\] > pan@BJ-APN-2 ~$ pwd > /export/home/pan/ > > After a cd command, which change directory to $HOME (not changed at all), > it is displayed as the complete path: > pan@BJ-APN-2 ~$ cd > pan@BJ-APN-2 /export/home/pan$ > > The reason is that my home in passwd has a trailing slash: > pan@BJ-APN-2 /export/home/pan$ grep ^$USER: /etc/passwd > pan:x:896:1::/export/home/pan/:/bin/bash > You can also reproduce this by directly setting HOME to `/export/home/pan/'. > This is tricky to find. I hope it will display tilde even if home dir entry > in passwd has one or more trailing slash. > I personally don't think this needs to be fixed. :) > > PS: I read the source code and do not know where this is done, maybe in > y.tab.c? >
