Hi Brian! El Lunes, 8 de Mayo de 2006 11:50, Brian D. McGrew escribio: > Back in 'ye olden days, we used to have a customized version of bash > that recognized '/' as a word separator; which was very nice when > editing command lines, a CTRL-W would not erase your whole typed path, > just back to the slash. > > Without building a new version of bash, how can I make the shell > recognize '/' as a word separator??? You must set the $IFS variable look in "man bash" the section "Word splitting" Greets! -- Mauricio Vergara Ereche User #188365 counter.li.org NIC Chile mave [@] nic [.] cl Agustinas 1357 Piso 4, Santiago CHILE +56 2 9407721 Codigo Postal: 834-0432 http://www.nic.cl