Re: bug in bash handling of PS1 prompt

2005-06-23 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 03:21:46PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When assigning to PS1 to change the prompt, bash appears to append any new value to the initial default value, rather than to replace it. I expect you have PROMPT_COMMAND set. Tim. */ pgpZD44ZaRlI8.pgp Description: PGP

Re: History timestamping does not respect TZ env variable

2005-06-23 Thread Julian Mehnle
Chet Ramey wrote: Julian Mehnle wrote: Description: The history timestamping feature of Bash 3.0 does not respect the TZ (timezone) environment variable. It erroneously always uses the system clock's configured timezone. Since it calls strftime(3) to do the formatting, it uses whatever

Re: ssh localhost date # no startup files read: ~/{.bash_profile, .bash_login, .profile, .bashrc}

2005-06-23 Thread Chet Ramey
Below are two tests cases for ssh localhost date. The Linux test shows that ~/.bashrc is read. The Cygwin case shows none of ~/{.bash_profile,.bash_login,.profile,.bashrc} are read. Doesn't this seem like a bug? There are two issues at play here. First, unless bash is compiled with

Re: trouble of gxditview with man bash

2005-06-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
[bash 2.05b.0] `gxditview' has some trouble with the man page of `bash'. From page 54 up to the end, it produces only trash output, while the display of `xditview' is alright. `xditview' just remarks an error `Unknown command d', although `groff' produces its intermediate output without