Bash 3 and $HOME abbreviated with a tilde.
Got a bit irritated when updating my Gentoo boxes to use bash 3.00.16, the \W and \w options for the prompt now replaces the home directory name to tilde, I hope I'm not the only one who wants to see the home directory name instead of the tilde. Wouldn't it be possible to see options \U and \u (just a suggestion) which behaives as \W and \w used to do under 2.05. Note, as I'm not memeber of this list, if replying to this post, please CC me. -- //Aho E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL: http://www.kotiaho.net/~trizt/ ICQ: 13696780 System: Linux System(PPC7447/1000 AMD K7A/2000) EU forbids you to send spam without my permission ___ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
Re: Bash 3 and $HOME abbreviated with a tilde.
On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, J.O. Aho wrote:
Got a bit irritated when updating my Gentoo boxes to use bash 3.00.16, the \W
and \w options for the prompt now replaces the home directory name to tilde,
I hope I'm not the only one who wants to see the home directory name instead
of the tilde.
Wouldn't it be possible to see options \U and \u (just a suggestion) which
behaives as \W and \w used to do under 2.05.
AFAICT, there is no difference in behaviour between 2.05 and 3.00
when using \w; there is for \W. (The documentation for bash3
mentions both explicitly, which it didn't in bash 2.05.)
If you want the full path (as in \w), use $PWD in PS1, e.g.:
PS1='$PWD \$ '
If you want the basename (as in \W):
PS1='${PWD##*/} \$ '
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