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Handling of \W in the PS1 prompt is buggy in certain cases.
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dpovey |
Subject: |
Handling of \W in the PS1 prompt is buggy in certain cases. |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:26:07 -0500 |
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../bash -I../bash/include -I../bash/lib -g -O2 -Wall
uname output: Linux a01 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Sun May 6 04:00:17 UTC 2012
x86_64 GNU/Linux
Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Bash Version: 4.1
Patch Level: 5
Release Status: release
Description:
If a directory is a subdirectory of / and has four or five characters in
its name, the PS1 prompt is wrong for it. Examples below.
Repeat-By:
# Run the commands below.
root@a01:~# export PS1='\h:\W '
a01:~ cd /abcd
a01:acdd
a01:~ mkdir /abcde
a01:~ cd /abcde
a01:abdde cd ..
You can see that the prompts are garbled.
Fix:
I don't have a fix.
- Handling of \W in the PS1 prompt is buggy in certain cases.,
dpovey <=