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" -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
