On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:40:01PM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:01:20AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > The prompt always shows the entire chain to the current directory. My > > memory says this was not always so. There is nothing in .bashrc > > regarding this. Is it set somewhere else? > > The default value of PS1 (the prompts in bourne shells) is something in > the lines of: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ > > In the manual page of bash, under 'PROMPTING' you'll find their > meanings. Specifically, \w means: > > the current working directory, with $HOME abbreviated > with a tilde > > So you might have seen once the path truncated as you were at your home > directory. > > > > > The reason I ask is that I am trying to work with a One Laptop per Child > > (olpc) laptop and the prompt never shows even the current directory. > > The olpc is fedora based but I'm trying to get it to behave more like > > Debian. My assumption is that aside from a few idiosyncracies fedora is > > linux. > > Or a different value to PS1 . Try the following in your terminal: > > echo $PS1 > PS1_saved="$PS1" > PS1="\d $PS1" > echo "just to see the new prompt" > PS1="$PS1_saved"
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