Re: Bash 3 and $HOME abbreviated with a tilde.

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

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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