On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Robert Body wrote:
> I don't suppose there is a way of NOT letting %HOME% take priority over
> "/etc/passwd" for my home directory?
Yes. Edit /Cygwin.bat and add "unset HOME" right before invoking bash.
> Brian,since you know about so many things, how come the following ksh
> doesn't work in
> 1) Linux xyz 2.4.7-10 #1 Thu Sep 6 17:27:27 EDT 2001 i686 unknown
> 2) HP-UX xyz B.11.00 U 9000/785 2004606272 unlimited-user license
>
> the PS1 line below puts path into the title of the xterm, and puts
> "$PWD" into prompt and this works fine in bash (different section of
> /etc/profile), but not in ksh
bash uses a different set of escape codes. The below is actually a bug in
the default /etc/profile -- the '^[' symbols should be literal Esc (0x1B)
characters, and '^G' should be 0x07 characters. I've reported this
before, but it probably is time to bring it up again.
> ---------taken from cygwin's /etc/profile--------------------
> ...
> ksh* | -ksh* | */ksh* | \
> ksh*.exe | -ksh*.exe | */ksh*.exe )
> # Set a HOSTNAME variable
> typeset -l HOSTNAME
>
> # Set a default prompt of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and current_directory
> PS1='^[]0;${PWD}^G
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^[[33m${PWD}^[[0m
> $ '
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Basically the escape codes are being ignored in ksh,
Those aren't escape codes, those are improperly pasted control characters.
> but it came from cygwin's /etc/profile so it must be perfect right?
:-)
HTH,
Igor
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