On 16/11/09 Polytropon said: > Your PS1 seems to include ${SHORT_PWD}, a variable. It seems > that it is not updated immediately after the cd command.
Yeah, looks like it. Works on linux though... > By the way, this is bash-3.2.25 on FreeBSD/x86 7. bash-4.0.33_2 on x86 6.3. > Is this what you've intended the prompt to look like? I'm using an awk script to truncate any pwd that's too long. get_short_pwd() { # The actual max length is max_len + the length of trunc_symbol local max_length=$1 local trunc_symbol="..." if [ -z "$max_length" ]; then max_length=20 fi if [ "$PWD" != "$OLDPWD" ]; then SHORT_PWD=$(awk "BEGIN { path = ENVIRON[\"PWD\"] home = ENVIRON[\"HOME\"] home_len = length(home) max_len = $max_length sym_len = length(\"$trunc_symbol\") if(substr(path, 0, home_len) == home) { path = sprintf(\"~%s\", substr(path, home_len + 1)) } path_len = length(path) if (path_len > max_len) { path = sprintf(\"%s%s\", \"$trunc_symbol\", substr(path, path_len + sym_len - max_len + 1)) } print path }") OLDPWD=${PWD} fi } This is called via a build_prompt() function in my .bashrc. I guess I'll echo out some variables there and see what's happening. FTR this did work, and then I updated bash in ports. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <msoul...@digitaltorque.ca> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein
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