On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:34:03PM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Di, den 07.12.2004 schrieb Alex Greg um 17:13: > > > I've recently migrated from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 3, and there > > are a few small but irritating changes that I'd like to revert back to > > the way they used to work: > > > > 2) When in my home directory, the prompt reads: > > > > [testuser@desktop ~]$ > > > > rather than: > > > > [testuser@desktop root]$ > > > > as it used to in FC1. Is there any way to change this back? > > > -- Alex > > I would say this is a bash bug. The shell build-in prompt does no longer > distinguish betwee \w and \W. See man bash -> prompting > > \w the current working directory, with $HOME > abbreviated with a tilde > \W the basename of the current working directory, > with $HOME abbreviated with a tilde > > Would you mind to report it with bugzilla? The bash author has this to say on his release notes for 3.0: "kk. The `\W' prompt expansion now abbreviates $HOME as `~', like `\w'." http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/NEWS So, you may not like the new feature, but the author doesn't consider that a bug. To get the full pathname into the prompt, try something like (according to the bash faq page): PS1='$PWD$ ' # full pathname of current directory -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
