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.
I'd rather not do that. It's trivial to emulate the 2.05 behavior using something like ${PWD##/*/}. It's not quite as easy to emulate the 3.0 behavior using shell expansions. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live...Laugh...Love Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/ _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash