Re: current directory

Daniel L Newhouse <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Mar 2021 19:52:47 -0500
Newsgroups alt.comp.cygwin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.