Re: current directory

Daniel L Newhouse <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Mar 2021 18:26:57 -0500
Newsgroups alt.comp.cygwin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 17:52:22 -0500, Daniel L Newhouse
<[email protected]> wrote:

Excuse me, relative to the HOME directory, not the PATH, which
even by default is quite long.

>On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 17:18:43 -0500, Daniel L Newhouse
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Can cygwin be modified to display the current directory at the prompt?
>
>The best I have found, using my Bash O'Reilly and my own
>experimentation is  
>
>PS1="\s-v\w"
>
>I didn't find any difference in performance  between 'w' and 'W'.
>I do see that the working directory is defined relative to PATH, which
>I have no interest in changing.
>
>If you want to see your PATH, the command is 'echo "$PATH"'.