It works for me:
$ PS1='\s-\v\$ '
bash-2.05a$
Alan
--On Monday, May 06, 2002 6:53 PM +0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In Cygwin using this version of BASH, my attempts to get
> a simple name of the shell interpreter into my prompt
> (PS1) using escaped-s ('\s'), which should work accoding
> to
> http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-
> HOWTO/bash-prompt-escape-sequences.html
> does not give the basename of of the shell but the
> relative path by which I invoked bash: '/bin/bash'.
>
> The HOWTO above states:
> \s the name of the shell, the basename of $0
> (the portion following the final slash)
>
> Is Cygwin not compliant with this?
>
> Thanks,
> Soren Andersen
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