Re: [edlug] setting your prompt

[Bruce Duncan <B.W.Duncan@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

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That is the best you can hope for; as you probably already know, /home/james 
is (un)expanded to ~, i'm not sure how (or if) you can disable it. I can't 
find anything about disabling it in bash(1).
\w is what I use.

neox

On Monday 30 December 2002 5:53 pm, james duncan wrote:
> Hi
>
> whats the switch you would use in a PS1 setting in your .bashrc file to
> have your command prompt give the full working directory? ie
> [/home/james]$
> redhat8 bible says \w but it just gives me a tilde
> \W gives me just the last directory in the list ie [james]$
>
> thanks very much
>
> james
>
>
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