Hi Chet, On Fri 16-05-14 09:13:34, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 5/16/14, 5:22 AM, Libor Pechacek wrote: > > > Bash Version: 4.2 > > Patch Level: 46 > > Release Status: release > > > > Description: > > Bash prompt always shows full path in prompt instead of tilde > > abbreviation when $HOME ends with slash. > > This came up in March, 2012: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2012-03/msg00055.html > > My opinion that this is not a bug in bash hasn't changed. There are a > number of easy ways to remove this trailing slash.
Agree. On the other hand, passwd(5) does not fobid the trailing slash. That said I think that either bash should tolerate the trailing slash - will likely be easy as you mentioned above - or the limitation should be documented in bash manual so that no more people burn their time on this unexpected behavior. Libor -- Libor Pechacek Project Manager SUSE Labs, Prague
