Rebooted. No change to hostname. No DHCP. Problem still exists.
Should see a prompt of:
[[email protected]:/home/rbeede] $
but instead I only get:
[rbeede@okdev1381:/home/rbeede] $
[rbeede@okdev1383:/home/rbeede] $ echo $PS1
[\u@\H:/home/rbeede] $
[rbeede@okdev1383:/home/rbeede] $ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="13.10, Saucy Salamander"
The bash man page states:
\h
The hostname, up to the first ‘.’.
\H
The hostname.
This would imply that the difference between \h and \H is
\h is only the hostname
\H is the FQDN
The source code however shows:
case 'h':
case 'H':
temp = savestring (current_host_name);
if (c == 'h' && (t = (char *)strchr (temp, '.')))
*t = '\0';
goto add_string;
This shows that \h is always the short form of the hostname while \H may be
the FQDN. In most cases, however, \H just resolves so the short form hostname
and not the FQDN (aka domain name).
This is an ambiguity in the bash man page documentation. The bash man page
should be updated to say:
\h
The hostname, up to the first ‘.’.
\H
The hostname possibly with the parts after the '.' (domain name or FQDN
but usually not)
** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => Incomplete
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1276796
Title:
bash fails to provide FQDN for PS1 with \H
To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/1276796/+subscriptions
--
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
