On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Rudi Ludwig <rud...@gmx.de> wrote: ... > Opening a new Konsole in KDE and trying some commands: > ibook:/usr/home/rudi$ /bin/pwd > /usr/home/rudi > ibook:/usr/home/rudi$ cd > ibook:~$ /bin/pwd > /usr/home/rudi > ibook:~$ echo $HOME > /home/rudi > ibook:~$ echo $PWD > /home/rudi > ibook:~$ > > To me the issue is mostly cosmetic, but I have to admit that the > first command I type in is almost always "cd" to get a short and > readable command prompt. And I would like to avoid that extra.
When the shell is started by konsole, or xterm, or login, it's working directory has already been set to $HOME. At that point, it can only see the physical path (sans symlinks). If you want it to see the logical path, then you need to have it do a chdir itself...as you figured out when you do 'cd' first thing. So, just put some logic into your .profile to cd $HOME if the physical directory is that of $HOME. case $PWD in $(cd $HOME && pwd -P) ) cd $HOME;; esac Philip Guenther
