Re: current directory

Daniel L Newhouse <[email protected]> Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:01:06 -0500
Newsgroups alt.comp.cygwin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 19:52:47 -0500, Daniel L Newhouse
<[email protected]> wrote:


Ideally, you would see a '$' at the prompt for absolute path and a '~'
at the prompt for relative path.  Depending on whether or not you are
in you home directory.  

I have only seen this work on Solaris.

>On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 18:40:31 -0500, Daniel L Newhouse
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>The fact that there is no startup script, however, means that you have
>to change PS1 every time you restart cygwin!
>
>I also vote for Minix compatibility.
>
>>On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 18:35:48 -0500, Daniel L Newhouse
>><[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>K, the syntax is "\s-\v\w".  What I posted was a typo.  Parts of these
>>>Kindle books aren't searchable.  Try searching on "PS1" to find it in
>>>Bash from O'Reilly.  
>>
>>
>>Also, IIRC, ending the prompt with a '~' indicates a working
>>directory, which is normal, whereas ending it with a '$' indicates an
>>absolute path.